fever
high body temperature; intense excitement
Root
- ferv: boiling heat or intensity
Other words with the ferv root
- effervescent: bubbly or lively
- ferment: to undergo change; to stir up unrest
- fervent: intensely passionate or earnest
- fervid: intensely enthusiastic or heated
- fervor: intense and passionate feeling
Fever is the familiar heat image; ferv words turn heat into passion.
Exam week gave the whole library a fever of focused activity.