Thursday, October 7, 2010

Word #6

trenchant

Peruvian Writer Wins Nobel Prize (article from Wall Street Journal)

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announcing the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award in Stockholm Thursday, praised the writer 'for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.'"

vigorous; effective; energetic; adjective

Bobby's message was so trenchant that it moved millions of people to donate to the cause.

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