zestnoun
uk/zest/us/zest/zest noun (EXCITEMENT)
[ S or U ] enthusiasm, eagerness, energy, and interest:
It's wonderful to see the children's zest for life.
He approached every task with a boundless zest.
The recording captures the zest of this live concert performance.
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Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm
- a new lease of life idiom
- alacrity
- animation
- ardour
- avid
- flap
- frisky
- frisson
- get-up-and-go
- glamour
- gusto
- meaty
- shiver (up and) down your spine idiom
- sparkle
- spice
- spirit
- sprightly
- stimulation
- stir
- zap
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zest noun (FRUIT SKIN)
[ U ] the skin of an orange, lemon, or lime, used to add flavour to food:
grated lemon zest
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- husk
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
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