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Word of the Day:PERSPICACITY
www.dictionary.com ^ | 10 November 2017 | Red Badger

Posted on 11/10/2017 7:57:56 AM PST by Red Badger

perspicacity [pur-spi-kas-i-tee]

noun 1. keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration. 2. Archaic. keen vision.

ORIGIN:

1540-50; earlier perspicacite < Late Latin perspicācitās sharpness of sight, equivalent to perspicāci- (stem of perspicāx sharp-sighted; see perspicuous ) + -tās -ty2

Synonyms

1. shrewdness, acuity, astuteness, insight, acumen. See perspicuity.

Antonyms 1. obtuseness.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; History; Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: perspicacity; wftd; word

1 posted on 11/10/2017 7:57:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; ...
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day........

2 posted on 11/10/2017 7:58:40 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

On of the earliest efforts to measure persiapisscapacities was by an anthropologist trying to find the sizes of old Babylonian septic tanks.


3 posted on 11/10/2017 8:07:33 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

You missed your calling.......................


4 posted on 11/10/2017 8:10:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

My incapacity to speak with perspicacity interferes with my ability for disputacity with veracity which promotes mendacity and pugnacity.


5 posted on 11/10/2017 8:37:06 AM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Red Badger; Lazamataz

I am looking forward to Laz’s comments on the news of the day because I so admire his perspicacity.


6 posted on 11/10/2017 8:38:21 AM PST by Tax-chick (The bigger the problem, the less likely a solution can be politically feasible.)
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To: Red Badger

perspicacity: Ability to GROK.


7 posted on 11/10/2017 8:42:50 AM PST by poinq
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To: Red Badger
Many naiveé Democrat analysts severely misjudge President Donald Trump's perspicacity...
8 posted on 11/10/2017 8:59:11 AM PST by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: Red Badger

I lack the perspicacity to use perspicacity in a sentence!


9 posted on 11/10/2017 9:05:12 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: sargon

A+++......May it always be so!...............


10 posted on 11/10/2017 9:34:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: BipolarBob

Your audacity is full to capacity...................A+....


11 posted on 11/10/2017 9:35:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Tax-chick

Ask him nicely and he might show it to you.............A++.............


12 posted on 11/10/2017 9:36:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: poinq

I grok it!...........A+.........


13 posted on 11/10/2017 9:36:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

No you don’t!..........A+..............


14 posted on 11/10/2017 9:37:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

It doesn’t take great perspicacity
To question the Media’s veracity
If it’s anything “Trump”
Fake news they will dump
And thus join in the Swamp’s pervicacity…


15 posted on 11/10/2017 10:24:59 AM PST by mikrofon (Freewheeling Friday BUMP)
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To: mikrofon

Excellent!.............A++++!....................


16 posted on 11/10/2017 10:27:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Just got home from my Friday work-collecting on invoices and paying the crew for my compadre-

Understanding Hillary’s vengeance
Doesn’t require much perspicacity-
It is there in her superior attitude
And total contempt for veracity

Everything is always about her
She’s a legend in her own mind-
And the democrats will all pay
No matter that they are her kind

She will place all the blame on
Those she believes let her lose
By not hiding her well enough
When zoned on drugs and booze


17 posted on 11/10/2017 11:23:54 AM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

Excellent!............A++++!................


18 posted on 11/10/2017 12:11:54 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Thank you!


19 posted on 11/10/2017 12:21:24 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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