Meanings (ES + gloss)
acre
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annua…
acre • mordaz
Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
In a chaotic, 90-minute back-and-forth, the two major party nominees expressed a level of acrid contempt for each other unheard-of in modern American politics.
That man has an acrid temper.
Word forms