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

Indeed, the acridity which for Marietta lingered about the recollection of their efforts to make themselves over did not exist in the more amply satisfied mind of her mother.

From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo

These experiments show conclusively that the acridity of the Indian turnip and calla is due to the raphides of calcium oxalate only.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various