Vigour vs Zest - What's the difference?
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Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
* (rfdate) :
(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
(by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
* Young
* Gogan
The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
* 2006 , N. J. Nusha, On the edge: short stories (page 85)
(cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit
To make more zesty
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As nouns the difference between vigour and zest
is that vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy while zest is the outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.As a verb zest is
to scrape the zest from a fruit.vigour
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Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
Usage notes
Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.Derived terms
* envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigourzest
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Noun
(wikipedia zest)- The orange zest gives the strong flavors in this dish.
- Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.
- Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe / Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.
- Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.
- The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips.