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Zealous Efforts House Christmas Adjective Zeləs Adj.热心的 Children

Front zealous
Pron ['zeləs]
Back 【zealous】
adj.热心的
The children made zealous efforts to clean up the house for the Christmas party.
孩子们为了圣诞宴会,热心势力地打扫屋子。
Vocab
zealousmarked by active interest and enthusiasm

Use the adjective zealous as a way to describe eagerness or enthusiastic activity. If you are too zealous in your efforts to decorate the house with Christmas lights, you might cause a power outage for the whole neighborhood.

Zealous is the adjective for the noun zeal "eager partisanship"; the latter has a long e, but zealous has a short one: ZEL-uhs. It can have a slightly negative connotation, and people are sometimes described as "overzealous," meaning they try too hard. "Zealous" rhymes with "jealous" (and in fact they're from the same Greek word), but don't confuse them: a jealous person might be resentful of someone who makes zealous efforts to achieve success.

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zeal
zealous
overzealous
zealously

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