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effervescent
effervescent:
see
fervent
effervescent (adj.)
1680s, from Latin
effervescentem
(nominative
effervescens
), present participle of
effervescere
"to boil up, boil over" (see
effervescence
). Figurative meaning "exuberant" is from 1833.