2. enliven, invigorate, stimulate, inspirit, energize; animate, raise, vivify, vitalize; reanimate, revive, revivify, revitalize, rejuvenate; fire, Inf light a fire under, inflame; enkindle, Inf. spark, stir, quicken, awaken, make active; arouse, tingle, thrill; Inf pep up, perk up, bolster or bolster up, cheer, refresh, give a lift to.

exhilaration, n. high spirits, good spirits, gaiety, merriment, lightheartedness; blithesomeness, airiness, sunniness, breeziness, buoyancy; liveliness, alacrity, briskness, vivacity, effervescence, bubbling; gladsomeness, joyousness, cheerfulness, levity; hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, elation; glee, gleefulness, exultation, jubilation; merrymaking, rejoicing, laughter; jocundity, jocularity, joviality, conviviality, jollity; jauntiness, sprightliness, pertness, friskiness, playfulness, sportiveness; energy, spirit, elan, dash, ardor; passion, zeal, gusto, vigor; eagerness, animation, Inf. ginger, enthusiasm; sparkle, ebullience, excitement; ecstasy, thrill, Inf. rush, tingling.

exhort, v. urge, persuade, sway, prompt, prevail upon; press, peptalk, Inf. sparkplug, encourage, move, animate, stimulate; impel, instigate, induce, incite, inspire, provoke; rouse, goad, egg on, spur, fillip; inflame, fire up, spark, stir, push, quicken, hasten; advise, counsel, recommend, prescribe; caution, warn, alarm, expostulate; admonish, advise against, forewarn, dissuade; enjoin, entreat, charge, adjure, implore; impress, instruct, preach, lecture.

exhortation, n. 1. persuasion, prompting, urging, urge, insistence; encouragement, stimulation, incentive, inducement, instigation; inspiration, incitement, impulse, instance, provocation; prick, goad, spur, stimulus, fillip; pep talk, rally, call to arms; advice, counsel, word to the wise, recommendation, prescription, warning, caution; admonition, monition, forewarning, injunction, expostulation, remonstrance; entreaty, charge, adjuration, enjoining, imploration.
2. lecture, preachment, instruction, homily, sermon, evangelization; harangue, tirade, Inf. fire and brimstone.

exhume, v. 1. dig up, unearth, disinter, excavate; unbury, disinhume, disentomb, exhumate, unsepulcher.
2. resurrect, restore, regenerate, revive, reanimate; bring to life, bring to light, bring back, recall, reincarnate.

exigency, n. 1. urgency, exigence, need, needfulness; imperativeness, imperative, importunity, importunateness, solicitousness, clamorousness; insistence, instance, pertinacity, pertinaciousness, pressure.
2. exigencies demands, needs, wants, requirements, urgencies, necessities, essentials, requisites.
3. emergency, crisis, juncture, conjuncture, crossroads; extremity, pinch, dire circumstance, contingency; strait, difficulty, rub, trouble, Inf. hot water; predicament, plight, impasse, imbroglio, corner, cul-de-sac; fix, bind, pass, mess, Inf. pickle, Inf. stew; All Inf hole, clutch, clinch, crunch, tight squeeze.

exigent, adj. 1. urgent, pressing, imperative, high-priority; critical, acute, crucial, pivotal, climacteric; demanding, insistent, importunate, compelling, instant, pertinacious; crying, clamoring, clamorous, loud, clamant, solicitous.
2. taxing, exacting, draining, exorbitant, extortionate; austere, harsh, severe, dire, Spartan, lenten, abstemious; rigorous, rough, stringent, stiff, hard, stern.

exiguous, adj. scanty, scant, meager, sparse, bare, mere, slight; trifling, piddling, negligible, inconsiderable, Inf skimpy, Inf. scrimpy; slender, slim, thin, lean; frugal, sparing, poor, impoverished; miserly, niggardly, mean, parsimonious, stingy, Inf. chintzy;