A personal lexicon of unusual, archaic, scientific, and otherwise interesting words encountered in reading. Browse other letters from the Dictionary catalog.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| zany | n. a comical person given to extravagant or outlandish behaviour; adj. ludicrously comical; clownish; comical because of incongruity or strangeness; bizarre |
| zeitgeist | the spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation. |
| zither | an instrument composed of a flat sound box with about 80-40 strings and played horizontally |
| zodiac | a belt stretching round the sky to 8o on either side of the ecliptic, in which the sun, moon and bright planets are always to be found. |
| zymosis | fermentation; infection, esp. fungal |
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