verve
n.n. a lively and energetic way of doing something. You use this to describe someone who is full of spirit and enthusiasm.
n. lively energy, spirit, or enthusiasm. Often describes a person's manner or a creative work's style.
She has a lot of verve and always makes people laugh.
The young director brought a fresh verve to the classic play, making the old story feel new and exciting.
While the script was technically sound, the performance lacked the necessary verve to truly engage the audience and convey the emotional depth of the characters.
Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.