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Today's Word "perspicacity"

Clearness of understanding or insight on

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perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\ (noun) - Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.

"Perspicacity to see what you want isn't much use without power to get it. And power's not worth much without perspicacity to see what you want." -- Clara E Laughlin, 'Children of To-morrow'

 

Perspicacity comes from Latin perspicax, perspicac-, "sharp-sighted," from perspicere, "to look through," from per, "through" + specere, "to look."


 

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