RACY ( page 299 ).
Questions.
1. To what does racy in the first instance refer? pungent? 2. How does piquant differ from pungent? 3. How are these words and the word spicy used in reference to literary products?
Examples.
Pure mother English, —— and fresh with idiomatic graces.
The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the —— odor of burning peat.
The spruce, the cedar, and the juniper, with their balsamic breath, filled the air with a —— fragrance.