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percipient
PRONUNCIATION:(per-SIP-ee-ant)
MEANING:
adjective: Having deep insight or understanding.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin percipere (to perceive), from per- (thoroughly) + capere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kap- (to grasp), which also gave us captive, capsule, capable, capture, cable, chassis, occupy, deceive, gaff, caitiff, and captious. Earliest documented use: 1659.
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percipiant - E. O. Wilson
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persipiants
wine tasters
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pencipient: just beginning to be written.
Example: "Rutherford's pencipient novel, Backyard Phoenix, promises to be a blockbuster, although only the opening sentence has been written: 'By the time the barbecue was over, half the Cu 61 had decayed to Ni 61.'"
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OPERCIPIENT - knowledgable about Verdi, Puccini. etc. (viz. Milton Cross)
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sagacious
PRONUNCIATION:(suh-GAY-shuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Having keen judgment or wisdom.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sagire (to perceive keenly). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sag- (to seek out), which is also the source of seek, ransack, ramshackle, forsake, and hegemony. Earliest documented use: 1607.
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sagaious - a proneness to turn a mundane event into a saga.
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staygacious stick-to-it-isnous
spraygacious like unto a skunk
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SAGARIOUS = amiable but given to telling long, convoluted stories. Think: Garrison Keillor
SALACIOUS = given to telling salty stories
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With thee two I am reminded of the
"now you know", that's the "rest of the story" guy.
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temerarious
PRONUNCIATION: (tem-uh-RAR-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Presumptuously or recklessly daring or bold.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin temere (rashly).
Earliest documented use: 1532.
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temparous(noun) - a really, really, temporary worker.
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tetherous animals bound by 'leash laws'
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