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Word Meanings - ZEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc. 2. Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment;

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1. A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc. 2. Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe. Young. Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse. Gogan. 3. The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.

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  • JUDGMENT
    The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
  • SAVORINESS
    The quality of being savory.
  • CHOICELY
    1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
  • RELISHABLE
    Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
  • SAVOROUS
    Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
  • PERCEPTION
    The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
  • ENHANCEMENT
    The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
  • NICETY
    1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
  • FLAVORED
    Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
  • REJECTER
    One who rejects.
  • FLAVORLESS
    Without flavor; tasteless.
  • REJECT
    re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
  • SMACK
    A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
  • DISCERNMENT
    1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
  • PREDILECTION
    A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.
  • CHOICEFUL
    Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
  • SENSIBILITY
    The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive. 2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful;
  • REFINEMENT
    1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
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    by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
  • REJECTANEOUS
    Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
  • INSENSIBILITY
    1. The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates. 2. Want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion or passion; dullness; stupidity. Syn.
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    That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
  • ATTASTE
    To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
  • PREJUDGMENT
    The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.

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