Post by Miss Melissa on Feb 18, 2005 14:25:39 GMT
Woops missed Thursday, but here's one for Friday:
Word of the Day for Friday February 18, 2005
perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\, noun:
Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration,
discernment.
His predictions over the years have mixed unusual
aristocratic insight with devastating perspicacity.
--"Why fine titles make exceedingly fine writers,"
[1]Independent, November 3, 1996
Doubtless these thumbnail sketches, like everything else
Stendhal wrote, were intended ultimately to relate to his
own notion of himself as a creature of invincible
perspicacity and sophistication.
--Jonathan Keates, [2]Stendhal
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Perspicacity comes from Latin perspicax, perspicac-,
"sharp-sighted," from perspicere, "to look through," from per,
"through" + specere, "to look."
Word of the Day for Friday February 18, 2005
perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\, noun:
Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration,
discernment.
His predictions over the years have mixed unusual
aristocratic insight with devastating perspicacity.
--"Why fine titles make exceedingly fine writers,"
[1]Independent, November 3, 1996
Doubtless these thumbnail sketches, like everything else
Stendhal wrote, were intended ultimately to relate to his
own notion of himself as a creature of invincible
perspicacity and sophistication.
--Jonathan Keates, [2]Stendhal
_________________________________________________________
Perspicacity comes from Latin perspicax, perspicac-,
"sharp-sighted," from perspicere, "to look through," from per,
"through" + specere, "to look."