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perspicacious
What does perspicacious mean?
perspicacious (adjective): acutely insightful and wise.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use perspicacious in a sentence?
- Much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce perspicacious?
/pɚspəˈkeɪʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does perspicacious come from?
First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspicācitās (“discernment”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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