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acridity



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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was acridity.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2021

The full acridity of the gas starts fumigating your buggy consciousness.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2012

The polish, the precision, the elaborate grace and subterranean acridity of Mr. Cabell's characteristic style have never been displayed to better advantage than in this, which is among the very bitterest of his books.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are acrid, but lose their acridity when boiled, the water being changed.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

It has a slight acridity while raw, which it seems to lose in cooking.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha




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