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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:38 PM
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A note about perspecacity on DU
Edited on Tue Nov-04-03 06:39 PM by WilliamPitt
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:40 PM
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1. and this means...what?
:wtf:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:40 PM
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2. do you mean perspicacity?
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:41 PM
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3.  perspicacity
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition.  1995.

NOUN:
Skill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging: acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination, eye, keenness, nose, penetration, perceptiveness, percipience, percipiency, sagacity, sageness, shrewdness, wit. See ABILITY, CAREFUL.

http://www.bartleby.com/62/79/P1117900.html
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:41 PM
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4. Magritte?

http://www.hammondgallery.co.uk/view_pic.php3?pid=613&aid=45
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:43 PM
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5. Yeah I'm sweatin' like a whore in church
Just kiddin I know what it means
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xJlM Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:43 PM
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6. Did you mean perspicacity?
perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\, noun:
Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.

And I do like your insight, Will.
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PopSixSquish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 06:44 PM
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7. At First I Read That as Persnickity...
which means I either need new glasses or need to stop hitting the cough drops.

Did you mean perspicacity? According to American Heritage it means acuteness of perception or understanding.

Which we could all use some more of these days.

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