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adjective • keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point • having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing • (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone noun • a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named • a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point adverb • changing suddenly in direction and degree adjective satellite • (of something seen or heard) clearly defined • ending in a sharp point • having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions • marked by practical hardheaded intelligence • harsh • having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones • dangerously steep • very sudden and in great amount or degree • quick and forceful | ||||
| 54% | 8 | Someone whose career progresses rapidly | ||
noun • someone whose career progresses rapidly | ||||
| 47% | 6 | Derogatory term for a sexually adventuress woman | ||
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Surname Of The Character Becky In Old Carthusian W M Thackerays Novel Vanity Fair Whose Career Progresses From Articled Pupil At Miss Pinkertons Academy To Amoral Adventuress And Unashamed Social Climber
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SHARP which was last seen in the Telegraph Giant General Knowledge crossword.
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Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle’s elytron or wing caseFrom “association”, botanical Latin for the aggregate achenes, drupels or fruitlets forming a blackberry, custard apple, fraise, rasp or a tuft of old man’s beard from the traveller’s joy
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