Monday 1 July 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Acerbity

a-cer-bi-ty



noun :: Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.



noun :: Harshness, bitterness, or severity



"You are ignorant," Miss Bordereau remarked; not with acerbity but with a strange, soft coldness." --James, Henry

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