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BESPECKLE
speckle, bespeckle
(verb) mark with small spots; “speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
bespeckle (third-person singular simple present bespeckles, present participle bespeckling, simple past and past participle bespeckled)
To add speckles.
Seen from the air at night, tiny villages bespeckle the Indian landscape with firefly glows.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*spec"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bespeckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeckling.]
Definition: To mark with speckles or spots. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PUNGENCY
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
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