✅ Zesty describes something with a pleasantly sharp or tart flavor (a zesty spaghetti sauce).

✅ Piquant describes something with a pleasantly pungent, sharp, or spicy flavor (the piquant flavor of capers).

✅ Zesty and piquant can be used more generally to suggest liveliness or interest (Their conversation at the dinner party was zesty; She made a piquant comment).

✅ Zesty is a more common and less formal word than piquant.

Make your vocabulary more piquant with the help of these synonyms!

✅ Prosper means to be successful or fortunate, especially (though not exclusively) in a financial sense (I’m glad to hear you and your family are prospering).

✅ Blossom means to flourish or develop, especially in a way that suggests flowering or coming into your own (He blossomed in his new workplace).

✅ Prosper and blossom both mean to do well (You’ll blossom once you find your true friends; I’ve prospered this year).

✅ Prosper implies being successful or fortunate in a material sense, whether in regard to your finances, your health, or similar. Blossom can be used to refer to flourishing in a material sense but can also suggest flourishing with regard to your self-esteem or your sense of yourself.

Help your vocabulary blossom with these synonyms!

✅ Fatherly describes something that is like or befitting a parental figure (They often spoke in a fatherly tone).

✅ Paternal describes something characteristic of a kind or protective person (a paternal pat on the shoulder).

✅ Fatherly and paternal have very similar meanings. Generally, both words are used in a positive way to suggest care, love, and protection.

✅ However, being the more formal of the two, paternal can sometimes be used to suggest condescension (The bank manager offered unsolicited paternal advice) or more simply to express a relationship (He was my paternal grandfather).

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