perspicacious

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Sarah did not just accept her sister's ... perspicacious: NO ONE has the authority to fire another person because that person refused to do something illegal .... tom of covent garden: Zorik, Sex-integration, free association, feminism, masculinism, call it what you like.

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

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  • We can't go rousing people out of bed at this time of night Johnny Littlejohn stretched his incredibly long and thin body and yawned Somniferous satuvolism seems perspicacious," he remarked Eh?" —  094 - The Men Vanished
  • Sane, intelligent, perspicacious, and cute, this girl had looked. —  165 - The Devil Is Jones
  • He is perspicacious, humble, and extremely resourceful. —  DVD Times
  • Squiggy: perspicacious, I'm pretty sure my short posts don't really qualify as "rants", but ... —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
  • It will take a lot of slanted writing to make a silk purse out of this ... perspicacious: The judge didn't tell Palin and extended family to DO anything. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
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  1. From Latin perspicāx, perspicāc-, from perspicere, to look through; see perspective.

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  1. = French perspicace = Spanish Portuguese perspicaz = Italian perspicace, from Latin perspicax (perspicac-), sharp-sighted, from perspicere, see through: see perspective.
 

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/pərspɪˈkeɪʃəs/
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