perspicacious

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Perhaps our perspicacious President does, too, and will have to swallow his gall and put me back where I belong. "

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  1. adjective Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted. See Synonyms at shrewd.

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  • Another reader, a bit less perspicacious, didn't like the ship-lifting-off-Earth stories, because "it's possible, I suppose, but unlikely." —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • It was Lady Weathersfield who had presented the failed Cambridge scholar to his lordship, which was small wonder to the more perspicacious segments of the London gentry. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • 'Well, I admit you are quite perspicacious, Monsieur Constant,' she replied. —  Sepulchre
  • "My, you are perspicacious, aren't you, Mr. Spock? —  Trek to Madworld
  • Perhaps our perspicacious President does, too, and will have to swallow his gall and put me back where I belong. " —  Isabelle
 

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  1. From Latin perspicāx, perspicāc-, from perspicere, to look through; see perspective.

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/ (pûrˌspĭ-kāˈshəs)/
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