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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: perspicax, from perspicere; PERSPECTIVE

perspicacious

 adjective
     
per‧spi‧ca‧cious formal
good at judging and understanding people and situations [= perceptive]
—perspicaciously adverb
—perspicacity noun [uncountable]
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