This week’s theme
Words from chemistry

This week’s words
osmosis
solvent
caustic
bromidic
miscible

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(KAW-stik)

MEANING:

adjective:	1. Capable of burning or corroding.
	2. Highly critical; sarcastic.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin causticus, from Greek kaustikos, from kaustos (combustible), from kaiein, (to burn). Earliest documented use: 1555.

USAGE:

“She’d been brash and caustic when she’d broken things off.”
Falguni Kothari; Bootie and the Beast; Harlequin; 2015.

See more usage examples of caustic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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