zest
/zɛst/ verb C2- To scrape the zest from a fruit.
- To make more zesty.
He/she/it zests · Past zested · Past participle zested · -ing form zesting
Verb forms
- Base form
- zest
- He/she/it
- zests
- Past
- zested
- Past participle
- zested
- -ing form
- zesting
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“It immensely adds to the zest of an investigation, my dear Mr.
Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
She walked, rowed, berried, and dreamed to her heart’s content; and when September came she was bright-eyed and alert, with a step that would have satisfied the Spencervale doctor and a heart full of ambition and zest once more.
This incident gives zest to our investigation, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her.
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