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zest Noun 1. invigorating or keen excitement or enjoyment: he has a zest for life and a quick intellect 2. added interest, flavour, or charm: he said that she would provide a new zest for his government 3. the peel of an orange or lemon, used as flavouring [French zeste] zestful adj
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zest Translations n zest [zest] keen enjoyment She joined in the games with zest. genot, lus إسْتِمتاع شَديد، لَذَّه удоволствие nadšení iver; entusiasme der Genuß κέφι, ενθουσιασμός entusiasmo särtsakus شور و شوق into entrain, enthousiasme חֵשֶק, הֲנָאָה, הִתלַהֲבוּת मजा, रस, आनन्द gorljivost lelkesedés semangat áköf ánægja entusiasmo 熱意 열정 entuziazmas, užsidegimas dedzība; aizrautība perasaan ghairah animo iver, livslyst, appetitt przyjemność gosto antren, entuziasm пыл, энтузиазм nadšenie užitek polet iver, entusiasm ความสนุกสนาน coşku, heves 興趣 запал; зацікавленість ذوق و شوق sự thích thú 兴趣 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| I do not, of course, mean that there are not battles, conspiracies, tumults, factions, and all those other phenomena which are supposed to make History interesting; nor would I deny that the strange mixture of the problems of life and the problems of Mathematics, continually inducing conjecture and giving the opportunity of immediate verification, imparts to our existence a zest which you in Spaceland can hardly comprehend. It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. At any rate I fell greedily upon them, and I read with no less zest than his poems the bitter, and cruel, and narrow-minded criticisms which mainly filled one of the volumes. |
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