perspicacious
keenly perceptive
Roots
- -acious: trait-marking adjective ending
- spec / spic: look or see
Other words with the spec / spic root
- circumspect: cautious and careful
- conspicuous: easy to notice or clearly visible
- inspection: careful looking or examination
- perspicacity: keenness of understanding or insight
- specious: seemingly plausible but actually misleading
- spectacle: something striking to see
- spectacles: glasses used for seeing
Spec / spic gives seeing. Perspicacious people see through the surface quickly and accurately.
Her perspicacious question exposed the assumption hidden inside the argument.
Perspicacious is sharp seeing in the mind. It pairs beautifully with specious: the specious argument looks good; the perspicacious mind sees why it fails.