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refreshing

 adjective
     
re‧fresh‧ing
1 making you feel less tired or less hot:
a refreshing drink
The breeze felt refreshing.
2 pleasantly different from what is familiar and boring:
It made a refreshing change to talk to someone new.
—refreshingly adverb
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