6 words starting with Z.
A comic performer who copies and mocks the antics of a more skilled clown or fool. In Shakespeare's time, zanies were sidekicks who'd repeat a clown's jokes badly or exaggerate his movements for laughs.
A zany follows the main clown around stage, fumbling the same tricks.
Keen eagerness or passionate devotion to a cause or person. In Shakespeare's time, you might say someone had zeal *of* a cause rather than zeal *for* it.
She pursued the mission with such zeal that nothing could stop her.
The letter Z. In Shakespeare's time, it was often seen as redundant—English could manage without it.
King John curses the letter Z as useless and insulting.
The peak of your luck, power, or success. The moment when everything is going best for you.
He reached the zenith of his career when the king finally trusted him with the crown.
A year, or the passage of time marked by the sun's annual cycle through the zodiac. Shakespeare uses it to mean a complete year has passed.
Nineteen years have passed.
A band or strip of space, especially one marked by heat or light. Shakespeare uses it for the sun's path across the sky.
The burning zone where the sun travels each day.
