GRE vocabulary

Perspicacious

Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Example

"The perspicacious detective quickly unraveled the complex mystery."

Etymology

From Latin perspicax 'sharp-sighted,' from perspicere 'see through,' from per- 'through' + specere 'to look.'

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