Question

Read this excerpt from The Early History of the Airplane.

The larger works gave us a good understanding of the nature of the flying problem, and the difficulties in past attempts to solve it, while Mouillard and Lilientha, the great missionaries of the flying cause, infected us with their own unquenchable enthusiasm, and transformed idle curiosity into the active zeal of workers.

Using context clues, what does the term "zeal" most likely mean?

knowledge
confusion
enthusiasm
anger

Answer 1

Zeal means enthusiasm.

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on "Transformed idle curiosity into the active zeal of", I can infer that zeal means this because idle curiosity is saying that they want to know more, and based on active we know that they are willing to dig deeper into this.