This week’s theme
Z in the spotlight

This week’s words
zillionaire
spizzerinctum
zazzy
pizzazz


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PRONUNCIATION:

(puh-ZAZ)

MEANING:

noun: Flair, flamboyance, or vitality.

ETYMOLOGY:

Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1930s. Also spelled pizazz.

NOTES:

This is a word so inherently flamboyant it demands four Zs where one or two would have sufficed. Packing four Zs into a seven-letter frame makes it a typographic marvel that practically wears sequins on the page. Fashion editor Diana Vreeland helped popularize the word in the 1930s.

USAGE:

“A new breed of e-merchants tries to bring pizzazz to dull goods.”
The Direct Approach; The Economist (London, UK); Sep 11, 2021.

See more usage examples of pizzazz in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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