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  • 61keen — Synonyms and related words: Attic, OK, Siberian, ablaze, absorbing, ace high, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, active, acute, adroit, afire, aggressive, agile, agog, alacritous, alert, algid, alive …

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  • 62bright — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. brilliant, shining, glistening; luminous; clever, intelligent; gay, flashing, sparkling. See color, intelligence, light. Ant., dark, dim; stupid; clouded, dismal. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Shining] …

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  • 63smart — v 1. sting, prick, prickle, bite, nip, pinch, pierce, stab; gripe, burn, chafe, itch, rasp, grate, gall; hurt, pain, ache, throb, tingle. 2. injure, offend, aggrieve, grieve, sorrow, cut to the quick, cut to the heart, wound the feelings; disturb …

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  • 64French literature — Introduction       the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …

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  • 65perspicacious — adj discerning, astute, perceptive, clear eyed, penetrating, piercing; keen, sharp, acute, quick; sharp witted, keen witted, quick witted, Inf. quick on the uptake, Sl. sharp as a tack; bright, brainy, Inf. nobody s fool. Sl. in tune, Sl. tuned… …

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  • 66sagacious — adj 1. shrewd, astute, Sl. savvy, keen, clever, canny, subtle, Inf. cute, Archaic. parlous; calculating, cunning, sly, wily, foxy; acute, sharp, sharp witted, sharp as a tack; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, perceptive, percipient,… …

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  • 67PILPUL — (Heb. פִּלְפּוּל), a collective term denoting various methods of talmudic study and exposition, especially by the use of subtle legal, conceptual, and casuistic differentiation. The word is derived from pilpel ( pepper ), indicating that these… …

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  • 68adroit — Synonyms and related words: Daedalian, adept, adroitness, apt, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, canny, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, craft, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, deftness,… …

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  • 69apt — Synonyms and related words: Daedalian, a propos, ad rem, adapted, adept, adroit, alert, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, artistic, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bent, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, clean, clever, comely,… …

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  • 70brainy — Synonyms and related words: adroit, alert, apt, bright, brilliant, clever, dexterous, gifted, keen, keen witted, knowing, nimble, nimble witted, no dumbbell, not born yesterday, quick, quick thinking, quick witted, scintillating, sharp, sharp… …

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