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   vehement

   /ˈviːɪm(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense: "her voice was low but vehement"

   Word Origin late Middle English (describing pain or temperature, in the sense ‘intense, high in degree’): from French véhément or Latin vehement- ‘impetuous, violent’, perhaps from an unrecorded adjective meaning ‘deprived of mind’, influenced by vehere ‘carry’.

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

   • M

     3

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

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