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In natural English speech, "caustic" appears in contexts such as: "and his ideas he plucks motifs from everywhere and he uses them to make very caustic witty commentary there what's fake here no you come and tell it krauser's works are similarly provocative humorous and Roenick he creates one or two posters per month in limited editions of no more". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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and his ideas he plucks motifs from everywhere and he uses them to make very

caustic witty commentary there what's fake here no you come and tell it krauser's works are similarly provocative humorous and

Roenick he creates one or two posters per month in limited editions of no more

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adjective

Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.

Synonyms:acidic biting burning corrosive

adjective

Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.

“"How now!" said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever.”

Synonyms:bitchy biting catty mordacious

noun

Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

“The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).”

noun

The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.

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