Here is another set of interesting adjectives that are cool because they’re one syllable shorter than their English translations. To a native English speaker it sounds almost as though they’re missing their last syllable. I find it handy to learn them as a group. For some, the meanings in French and English are not exactly equivalent:
| French | English |
|---|---|
| efficace | efficacious |
| fugace | fugacious (fleeting) |
| loquace | loquacious (talkative) |
| perspicace | perspicacious (insightful) |
| pugnace | pugnacious (combative) |
| rapace | rapacious |
| sagace | sagacious (wise, shrewd) |
| salace | salacious (indecent) |
| tenace | tenacious |
| vorace | voracious |
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