pizzazz
People with pizzazz are glamorous and fun to be with; they have that certain something that attracts others to them.
Inanimate objects can also have pizzazz, like a school gymnasium that's been decorated for a dance or a website that's redesigned to be more flashy and exciting. Pizzazz began in the 1930s as a slang term, and it's still considered an informal way of describing excitement or zest.
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the activeness of an energetic personality
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The daughter of the mayor and treasurer of Nutsmore, eightish-year-old Leeva Spayce Thornblossom rebels against being treated like an employee who must work to increase her parents' fame and money.
Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu is determined to journey west from Glasgow, Scotland, to Blackpool, England, so that she can honor her grandmother's last wish of enjoying afternoon tea at a historic ballroom.
In a small town in Louisiana, the arrival of seventh-grader Orchid Mason is a curiously exciting event.