piquant &c. (pungent) 392; spicy, appetizing, provocative,
provoquant[obs3], tantalizing.
     eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit. 
     Adv. till one is black in the face. 
     Phr. the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart
leaping into one’s mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one’s veins; the eye glistening — “in a fine frenzy rolling”; the head turned; “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” [Richard Nixon].

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     #825. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability —­ N. excitability,
impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness &c. adj.; turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance[obs3]; irritability &c. (irascibility) 901; itching &c. (desire) 865; wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation &c. (irregular motion) 315.
     trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster,
flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry[obs3], thrill &c. (feeling) 821; state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.
     passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume,
blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.
     violence &c. 173; fierceness &c. adj.; rage, fury, furor,
furore[obs3], desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy[obs3], frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger &c. 900.
     fascination, infatuation, fanaticism; Quixotism, Quixotry; tete
montee[Fr]. 
     V. be impatient &c. adj.; not be able to bear &c. 826; bear ill,
wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew &c. n.; be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one’s pillow.
     lose one’s temper &c. 900; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly
off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one’s cool [coll.]; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne[Fr], faire le diable a quatre[Fr], play the deuce. 
     Adj. excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung;
irritable &c. (irascible) 901; impatient, intolerant.
     feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed.
     unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless,
fidgety, fussy; chafing &c. v.
     startlish[obs3], mettlesome, high-mettled[obs3], skittish.
     vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-
headed, madcap.
     overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid &c. (eager)
865.
     rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous,
tumultuary[obs3], boisterous.