New Word A Day

Perspicacious

Pronounced:
<per-spa-kay-shish>

Acutely insightful and wise.
My use:
I am much too perspicacious to fall for such a story. Instead, tell me the truth.

Literary use:
By Augustine
You are of all men the most perspicacious, and certainly the most learned.

Memory trick:
Perspi . cacious

Perspi (reminds of) = perspective
cacious (reminds of) = tenacious or hard working
perspective that is tenacious

Listen: Perspicacious