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What does perspicacity mean?

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Noun
  1. Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
  2. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
  3. (obsolete) Keen eyesight.
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Now, obviously these observers were simply dupes, and I admire his perspicacity in seeing straight through them.
This requires people to show great perspicacity and a willingness to take risks.
He was appointed Chairman of SGE on 29 September 1937 and it fell to him to manage the company with caution and perspicacity during the war.
It only made her resent the cruel perspicacity of their exposer, or possibly exercise a little more ingenuity in their inventions.
It is enhanced by Ms Atwood's keen eye for character Toby is a woman armed with a dry wit and clear-eyed perspicacity.
An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth.

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