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perspicacious: [adjective] of acute mental vision or discernment : keen.
Dec 4, 2022 · Celerity hasn’t acted with much expressive celerity since its entry into English in the 1400s: it refers now as it did centuries ago to swiftness of motion or action. Its source (by way of Middle French) is the Latin adjective celer (“swift” or “speedy”), a word from which we also get accelerate, and there is some evidence of a trace ...
Apr 25, 2024 · What It Means. Tendentious is a formal word used disapprovingly to describe someone or something expressing a strongly biased point of view in a way that may cause argument. // The book proved to be a tendentious account of the town's history, written to rescue the reputation of one of its less scrupulous founders. See the entry >.
Apr 13, 2024 · A person may be described as brusque when they are talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way. Brusque can also describe speech that is noticeably short and abrupt. // We knew something was wrong when our normally easygoing professor was brusque and impatient with our class. // She asked for a cup of coffee and received a ...
Dec 3, 2023 · Dexterous comes from the Latin word dexter, meaning "on the right side." Since most people are right-handed, and therefore do things more easily with their right hand, dexter developed the additional sense of "skillful." English speakers crafted dexterous from dexter and have been using the resulting adjective for anyone who is skillful—in ...
Apr 20, 2024 · What It Means. An act or manner described as gingerly is very cautious or careful. // It’s a delicate subject, and we need to approach it with gingerly care and tact. // The antelope moved with a gingerly gait that suggested it was hurt. See the entry >.
Apr 23, 2024 · Exodus was adopted into English (via Latin) from the Greek word Exodos, which literally means “the road out.”. Exodos was formed by combining the prefix ex-, meaning “out of,” and hodos, meaning “road” or “way.”. Indeed, many roads led out of hodos into English; other hodos descendants include episode, method, odometer, and period.
