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  • 11perspicacity — Synonyms and related words: acuity, acumen, acuteness, apperception, astuteness, clear sight, cogency, color vision, cone vision, critical discernment, day vision, daylight vision, discernment, discrimination, eye, eye mindedness, eyesight,… …

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  • 12vision — /ˈvɪʒən / (say vizhuhn) noun 1. the act of seeing with the eye; the power, faculty, or sense of sight. 2. the act or power of perceiving what is not actually present to the eye, whether by some supernatural endowment or by natural intellectual… …

  • 13perception — I noun ability to make distinctions, acuity, acumen, acuteness, apperception, appraisal, appreciation, apprehension, ascertainment, assessment, astuteness, attention, awareness, clear sight, cleverness, cognition, cognizance, comprehension,… …

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  • 14English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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  • 15scearpnes — f ( se/ sa) sharpness; 1. referring to the sight; sharpness, acuteness, keen observation; 2. referring to the mind; sharpness, acuteness, keen observation; 3. roughness of surface; 4. tartness, acidity, pungency; 5. efficacy; 6. effrontery …

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  • 16acute — [[t]əkju͟ːt[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED You can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense. The war has aggravated an acute economic crisis... The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government... The …

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  • 17Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …

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  • 18St. Paul —     St. Paul     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Paul     I. PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS     A. Apocryphal Acts of St. Paul     Professor Schmidt has published a photographic copy, a transcription, a German translation, and a commentary of a Coptic… …

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  • 19sharp-sighted — adjective 1. having very keen vision quick sighted as a cat • Syn: ↑argus eyed, ↑hawk eyed, ↑keen sighted, ↑lynx eyed, ↑quick sighted, ↑sharp eyed • Similar to: ↑ …

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  • 20Common sense — Sense Sense, n. [L. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as E. send; cf. OHG. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, G. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. F. sens. For the change of meaning cf. {See}, v. t.… …

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