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acumen
What does acumen mean?
acumen (noun): shrewdness shown by keen insight.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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Where does acumen come from?
Borrowed from Latin acūmen (“sharp point”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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