perspicacious• Towards the end of the infantileperiod the child is becoming more perspicacious.• a perspicaciouscritic• Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would become SpecialPensioner Khrushchev.
Originperspicacious
(1600-1700)Latinperspicax, from perspicere; → PERSPECTIVE