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Trenchant- **// –adjective //**  1. incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: // trenchant ﻿wit.;// vigorous; effective; energetic. //[]//

Today's Good word comes from Old French, trenchant "cutting", the present participle of trenchier "to cut". This is the same root that gave us // trench //, a long cut in the ground. The original root in Proto-Indo-European, the ancient language from which most European languages developed, meant "to pass over", as a saw passes over what it cuts. That is why the Latin prefix trans- "across" also developed from the same root. []



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Mrs. Joe has a __trenchant__ way of buttering their bread.
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