GRE Word List
PERSPICACIOUS
of acute mental vision or discernment : keen
The meaning of the word perspicacious is of acute mental vision or discernment : keen.
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| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| overt | open to view : manifest |