SAT vocabulary
Pithy
Concise and forcefully expressive.
Example
"Her pithy remarks at the meeting cut through the confusion and got straight to the heart of the matter."
Etymology
From Old English pitha, 'pith' (the essential part of something), later influenced by 'pithy' meaning 'full of pith.'
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