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

Their acridity is owing to an oleaginous substance called capsicin.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Sometimes it is mild or very slightly acrid, and again it resembles Cayenne pepper in its hot, biting acridity.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas