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active interest and enthusiasm- She attacks each challenge with zeal.
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
- We need someone with both zeal and ability.
- She fights ignorance with a religious zeal.
- Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until...Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- but surely never was such a sermon preached ... with so much zeal, knowledge, and sincerity;Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- Yossarian was stunned by their overbearing vigor and zeal,Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII - admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledgeJane Austen -- Emma
- Oh, once in a while they get carried away but it's good to see all that energy and zeal and enthusiasm.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- Max had experienced some of this himself, but it had never reached such a groundswell of intensity or zeal.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal:William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
- the zeal I had to see himWilliam Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
- If you had pleas'd to have defended it with any terms of zeal...William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice
- resolving, with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for the express benefit of young women with artistic tendencies.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- —but the soldier held her back and checked her zealHomer -- The Odyssey
- He zealously undertook to do so,Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
zeal = enthusiasm
zeal = enthusiasm
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zeal = enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zeal = enthusiasm
zeal = active interest and enthusiasm
zealously = enthusiastically