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expense(s) of: If you go to a place I choose, I'll spring for
dinner.
--n. 6 leap, bound, jump, hop, vault, bounce, skip: In one
spring the cat cleared the garden wall and was off. 7
bounciness, bounce, resiliency, resilience, springiness,
buoyancy, elasticity, sprightliness, airiness, flexibility:
Despite her age, there's still a lot of spring in her step. 8
source, fount, fountain-head, well-spring, well, origin,
beginning, root: From what secret spring does his understanding
arise? 9 springtime, Eastertide, Maytime: At 35, James is
still in the spring of life.
--adj. 10 vernal: We exulted in the spring sunshine.
sprout v. bud, germinate, come up, arise, begin, bloom, blossom,
flower: With this warm weather, everything in my garden is
beginning to sprout.
spruce adj. 1 neat, dapper, smart, trim, well turned out,
well-groomed, elegant, Colloq natty: Peter Thornton turned up
for dinner looking as spruce as can be.
--v. 2 spruce up. tidy (up), neaten (up), primp, clean (up),
straighten out or up, smarten (up), titivate or tittivate: Some
people are coming to dinner, so first spruce up your room and
then spruce yourself up.
spunk n. nerve, courage, pluck, spirit, gameness, resolve,
resolution, mettle, heart, grit, spunkiness, backbone, marrow,
Colloq guts, gumption, Brit bottle, US sand: Frances has shown
she has tremendous spunk to have got this far despite her
handicap.
spur n. 1 goad, prod, urging, impulse, incitement, instigation,
prompting, pressure, stimulus, stimulation, incentive,
provocation, inducement, encouragement, motive, motivation: The
company paid the workers a bonus for each piece they completed
as a spur to productivity. 2 projection, prong, spike, spine,
gaff, barb, quill, tine, barbel, barbule, process: The hook has
a spur that prevents the fish from disengaging. 3 on the spur
of the moment. impetuously, impulsively, unthinkingly,
unpremeditatedly, impromptu, on the spot; rashly, thoughtlessly,