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3 | 33% | 7 | Keener than the competition | |
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We think the answer is "SHARPER" which means:
- noun
- • A professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games adjective
- • Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
- • Intelligent.
- • Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- • Higher in pitch than required.
- • Having an intense, acrid flavour.
- • Sudden and intense.
- • Illegal or dishonest.
- • Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
- • Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- • Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
- • Stylish or attractive.
- • Observant; alert; acute.
- • Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- • Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- • (of a statement) said of as extreme a value as possible.
- • Tactical; risky.
- • Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- • Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- • Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
- • Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- • Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
- • Hungry.
An example sentence would be:
- • "She always kept her knives sharper than anyone else in the kitchen."
- • "The new pencil sharpener produces a much sharper point than the old one."
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