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Active

/ˈæktɪv/
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(adj) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She stays ____ by going for a run every morning at sunrise.

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