Perspicacious (adj)
purs-pi-kay-shuss
Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
I love this word, perspicacious; someone able to judge quickly and correctly what people and situations are really like.
Example sentences
“Many perspicacious investors sold their tech stocks long before the market crashed.”
“Even though the judge was normally a perspicacious woman, she found it hard to not be affected by the guilty man’s plea.”
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