Sentence:  His <WSD>energy</WSD> was prodigious ; sometimes he would be up before dawn , clad as a garbage collector and hurling pails into areaways to exasperate us , and thereafter would hurry to the Bronx Zoo to grimace at the lions and press cigar butts against their paws . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)