shrewdness

  • 21περινοήσει — περινόησις shrewdness fem nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) περινοήσεϊ , περινόησις shrewdness fem dat sg (epic) περινόησις shrewdness fem dat sg (attic ionic) περινοέω contrive cunningly aor subj act 3rd sg (epic) περινοέω contrive cunningly fut ind …

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  • 22Quickness — Quick ness, n. 1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. [1913 Webster] 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness …

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  • 23Sagacity — Sa*gac i*ty, n. [L. sagacitas. See {Sagacious}.] The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. [1913 Webster] Some [brutes] show that… …

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  • 24shrewd — adjective Etymology: Middle English shrewed, from shrewe + 1 ed Date: 13th century 1. archaic mischievous 2. obsolete abusive, shrewish 3. obsolete ominous, dangerous …

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  • 25Hetty Green — Henrietta Hetty Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 ndash; July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall… …

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  • 26Suraj Mal of Bharatpur — Maharaja Suraj Mal (1707 ndash;1763) (Devanagari:महाराजा सूरज मल) was ruler of Bharatpur in Rajasthan in India. He has been described by a contemporary historian as the Plato of the Jat people and by a modern writer as the Jat Ulysses , because… …

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  • 27List of collective nouns by collective term L-Z — Collective noun List of collective nouns List of collective nouns by collective term COLLECTIVE TERM COLLECTIVE PHRASE STATUS labour A labour of moles [cite web|url=http://dictionary.oed.com|title=Oxford English Dictionary online] lap A lap of… …

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  • 28Elizabeth I — (Elizabeth Tudor) 1533 1603, queen of England 1558 1603 (successor of Mary I; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn). * * * born Sept. 7, 1533, Greenwich, near London, Eng. died March 24, 1603, Richmond, Surrey Queen of England (1558–1603).… …

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  • 29Odysseus — /oh dis ee euhs, oh dis yoohs/, n. Class. Myth. king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War. Latin, Ulysses. * * * I Roman Ulysses Hero of Homer s …

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  • 30Gaozu — or Kao tsu orig. Liu Bang or Liu Pang born 256 BC, Peixian, in modern Jiangsu province, China died 195 BC, China Man of peasant background who rose to become the founder of China s Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220). When Shihuangdi, emperor of the Qin… …

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