fervent
FUR-vuntadjMeaning showing strong, warm feeling
Memory hook FERV-ent: a FEVER of feeling. Lila squeezes her eyes shut and wishes so hard over her birthday candles that she glows as if she had a fever. Her wish is fervent.
Lila made a fervent wish as she blew out the candles.
In context The crowd’s applause was fervent: people stood, cheered and stamped their feet until the band came back for one more song.
Similar passionate, intense, heartfelt, ardent
Opposite halfhearted, cool, indifferent
From Latin fervere, “to boil, to glow.”