Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

perspicacious

 

having keen powers of observation and understanding

 

The perspicacious youngster took delight in catching his teachers in mistakes.

 

Related English word: perspicacity

 

Latin root words: perspicax, perspicacis - penetrating, acute, sharp-sighted; perspicio, perspicere, perspexi, perspectus - to look through, see through

 

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