By Demetrius Carrington
I just added Perspicacious to my vocabulary.
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Latin, 17th century
1.Highly perceptive, keen
2.Discerning, shrewd
Examples of Perspicacious in a sentence
"The perspicacious 9-year-old easily picked up on my feelings without me even saying anything."
"I take a perspicacious approach to my studies, analyzing every word in my textbooks."
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Did you Know?
Perspicacious has origins in Latin words that mean "to look through" or "to be sharp-sighted." A perspicacious person is able to see answers clearly without much trouble.
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Posted on 03/01/2021 at 08:00 AM