Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Zest"

A: The literal meaning of zest is:
• a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring
• an enjoyably exciting quality : PIQUANCY
adds zest to the performance
• keen enjoyment

so the phrase ”zest it up” kind of like ”turn it up” or a suggestion/ and order to make the situation to become more lively /and enthusiastic

A: excitement

A: When you shave a little off of the outside of a lemon, the product is "zest", the act is "zesting" ("to zest") and you can do it using a "zester". The "zest" is thought to add a nice bit of extra flavor.

More abstractly the word just means excitement or passion. It is common to hear "he/she has a zest for life". That means this person enjoys life, has fun, likes to explore and learn new things - their life has a bit more "flavor". "To zest things up a bit" could be used to say "add excitement to a situation". It's usually used in a bit of a joking manor when talking about a small addition of fun to something... I am having trouble coming up with an example right now.

A: You have a zest for life.
We need lemon zest for this recipe.

There are better examples @

http://sentencedict.com/zest.html

https://useinsentence.com/zest-in-a-sentence/

A: zest of a lemon.

A: He had great zest for this type of activity. - this is where it means excitement and enthusiasm

I used the zest from the orange in my recipe. - this is where zest is a name for the outer part of peel from citrus fruits

A: Zest is more positive, and more specific.

A: zest = the skin of a citrus🍊 or human excitement.

zeal = devotion, like a Christian towards God

The Mormon missionaries ✝️came to Japan with zeal.

The chocolate 🍫 they ate had some zest on it.

A: I’ve never heard “without zest” before. It isn’t commonly used, and I found it online only used in quotes.

Here is one of the only examples
I found:

“To teach without zest is a crime.”

I’m guessing that it means to put no interest into what you’re doing. To teach without zest = To teach without showing any proper care, to teach without making anything fun or interesting.

Listless: Having/showing no interest in anything. So, pretty similar in a way.

“She had no desire to go out anywhere and wandered from room to room like a shadow, idle and listless.”

“The heat had made everyone feel listless.”

“She looked up and saw everyone starting their work. She took out a piece of paper, feeling listless and bored, and began her own work.”

It’s also not used that much, but those are some examples I could find.

A: Zest

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A: Zest can be used as a noun or a verb. You can "zest a lemon", where you shred the lemon peel, or you can have "lemon zest", which is the shreds of the lemon peel. It depends on the context. :)

A: "I mistyped 'zest' AS 'test'" otherwise everything is great!