{"id":822,"date":"2010-10-11T07:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:49","slug":"visual-dictionary-sagacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary-sagacious\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Sagacious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Visual Dictionary<\/a>, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\" This monk is sagacious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sagacious<\/a> is the adjective form of sage<\/em>, a wise person. A wise person is sapient<\/a> (like Homo sapiens<\/em>).<\/p>\n

A very perceptive person could be called sharp, astute<\/a>, perspicacious<\/a>, or canny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An educated person is erudite<\/a>; an intellectual person is cerebral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s try an Antonyms problem:<\/p>\n

PERSPICACIOUS:
\nA. inept
\nB. ambivalent
\nC. tepid
\nD. tantamount
\nE. opaque<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Choose your own answer, then click “more.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

PERSPICACIOUS means mentally sharp, perceptive. We want a word that means dense, stupid<\/em>. Believe it or not, that word is opaque<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opaque<\/em> is, literally, the opposite of transparent<\/em>. (Those who are in the habit of buying women’s hosiery have seen “opaque” on packages of tights; the word indicates that the tights are not see-through). Metaphorically speaking, an opaque<\/em> person is dense; just as light can’t pass through something opaque, knowledge can’t quite permeate an opaque<\/em> person’s brain.<\/p>\n

By the way, inept<\/a> means unskilled, ambivalent<\/a> means having mixed feelings, tepid<\/a> means lukewarm, and tantamount<\/a> means equivalent.<\/p>\n

The answer is E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures. This monk is sagacious. Sagacious is the adjective form of sage, a wise person. A wise person is sapient (like Homo sapiens). A very perceptive person could be called sharp, astute, perspicacious, or canny. An educated person is erudite; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}