10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSPICACIOUS»
Discover the use of
perspicacious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
perspicacious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Southernnorthern Nights: A Cal-Texas Poets Prospectus of ...
From the beginning with the introduction by Mr. Larry Jaffe Poet Laureate for Youths for Human Rights, these four books in one will take you on an adventure of truths in poetry, from love and honor, patriotism, corruption in law enforcement ...
Jeff Wayne-Patrick Russell, 2010
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Chernyshevskii's What is to be Done?: A Reevaluation
This sets the tone for the rest of the novel, in which an adversarial relationship
develops between the stylized images of the narrator and the so-called
perspicacious reader.128 The perspicacious (pronitsatel'nyi) reader, as he is
labeled by the ...
Andrew Michael Drozd, 2001
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... the business of displaying to their best advantage the remaining pieces —
Wylie) <he left an estate of approximately $l72,000, accumulated through
sagacious investments — Dilliard) Perspicacious is applied chiefly to mental
sight or insight ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
5 honed, razor- sharp, knife-edged. 6 piercing; intense. aa keenness see
ENTHUSIASM, INTELLIGENCE lb. SYNONYM STUDY: keen ACUTE, ASTUTE,
PENETRATING, PERSPICACIOUS, SHARP, SHREWD. A knife can be sharp,
even keen ...
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Direct Hits Toughest Vocabulary of the SAT: Volume 2 2011 ...
PERSPICACIOUS, PRESCIENT, DISCERNING: All three words mean insightful
and perceptive What do the French political writer Alexis de Tocque- ville and the
Jedi Master Yoda have in common? Both were unusually PERSPICACIOUS.
Larry Krieger, Ted Griffith, 2011
us, words like propitious and pernicious and perspicacious, which doesn't have
anything to do with perspiration, but it should. That word made me sweat just
hearing it! Perspicacious means “having keen judgment or understanding," but I ...
us, words like propitious and pernicious and perspicacious, which doesn't have
anything to do with perspiration, but it should. That word made me sweat just
hearing it! Perspicacious means “having keen judgment or understanding," but I ...
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, 2012
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Perspicuous is to perspicacious as intelligible is to intelligent. Perspicuous may
be defined etymologically as "see- through-it-ive-ness"; it means "clear; lucid;
seen readily," and is applied to thought and expression. E.g., in the nominal form:
...
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The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
Someone or something that shows such clear-sightedness is perspicacious, that
is, having or showing acute mental discernment, as in The students'
perspicacious remarks suggested that they had been paying attention to the
lecture. One can ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005
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Dictionary of Confusable Words
A perspicacious person is one who discerns or who understands something
without needing an explanation: 'He was a perspicacious student of human
nature and knew how we would react.' A perspicuous person is easy to
understand: 'We ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSPICACIOUS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
perspicacious is used in the context of the following news items.
41 ways to get a giggle out of Siri
"I am not perspicacious about the peregrinations of poultry." How do I look? Not wanting to offend too much, Siri has a couple of responses to ... «Pocket-lint.com, Jul 15»
Know your shelf life, go before your sell-by date and life after the …
Liam Twomey's decision surprised many in Wexford, but was probably perspicacious. Having been a TD for 21 years, I always felt and publicly ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
Will Self: Now I'm a vegetarian myself, I can say whatever the hell I …
For the most part the perspicacious muesli-munchers I know accept that human beings are omnivorous garbage-heads by nature. One of the ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
SLIGHTLY IRREGULAR: An ace worth trumping
Sometimes a perspicacious defender can avoid this fate, and in the rarest of circumstances, this may involve a violation of the gospel of contract ... «Finger Lakes Times, Jul 15»
Bushfire, Logic & Ambrose Bierce
The perspicacious Bierce did not stop there. He gave a clear example of a suspect syllogism, in which the statement that sixty men can do a piece of work sixty ... «Philosophy Now, Jul 15»
Analytic Philosophy, Continental Literature?
He is perspicacious enough to observe that the term is applied equally to 'Real existence', 'Human existence', and 'Consciousness'; then he hastily glosses ... «Philosophy Now, Jul 15»
In 'Go Set a Watchman', Racism Is Resilient and Seductive
Snarky and perspicacious, she reels off amusing asides about the tribal customs and comic history of her Southern home in a voice that's ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
Reflection on the life of Ellen Eisendrath Post: Taking one's …
... director, of the Washington University Gallery of Art. He was an informed, enthusiastic and perspicacious collector, teacher and administrator. «St. Louis Public Radio, Jul 15»
We Asked an Expert What Would Happen if Donald Trump Actually …
... would be his biggest obstacle this election, Balogh's remarkably spot-on prediction suggested he was every bit the perspicacious historian I'd ... «VICE, Jul 15»
Cube26: Replenishing Kineticism to Emotion Technology
The California predicated company, with an office in Delhi, soon introduced a package of perspicacious technologies for hand-held devices ... «Siliconindia.com, Jul 15»
