All 3 Uses of
zest
in
Childhood's End
- Perhaps that was the trouble: in the years of retirement, however many they might be, he would have no further goals to give any zest to life.†
Chpt 3 *
- It therefore had less zest for the few, but more tranquillity for the many.†
Chpt 6
- He was being super-cautious, he knew, but that added a schoolboy zest to the enterprise.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(zest) enthusiastic enjoyment; or the outermost skin of an orange or lemon (for flavor)