Wonderful Word #3 – Perspicacious

There are words… and then there are words.

I’ve always felt that perspicacious (and its derivatives) is a word.

To be perspicacious means “having a ready insight into and understanding of things”. In other words, a perspicacious wizard would be expected to grasp the intricacies of any magic they encounter fairly quickly.

What I really love about the word, however, is how it sounds. To be perspicacious means, to some extent, to be intelligent, and the word just sounds very intelligent. It is, in ...