[vig-er] 
| 1. | active strength or force. |
| 2. | healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality. |
| 3. | energetic activity; energy; intensity: The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor. |
| 4. | force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant. |
| 5. | active or effective force, esp. legal validity. |
| vig·our (vĭg'ər) n. Chiefly British Variant of vigor. |