| acute |
| 1. adj. Brief, quick, short. | |
| Synonyms: fast, rapid | |
| It was an acute event. | |
| 2. adj. High or shrill. | |
| an acute accent or tone | |
| 3. adj. Intense, sensitive, sharp. | |
| Synonyms: keen, powerful, strong | |
| She had an acute sense of honour. Eagles have very acute vision. | |
| 4. adj. Urgent. | |
| Synonyms: emergent, pressing, sudden, urgent | |
| His need for medical attention was acute. | |
| 5. adj. (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base). | |
| Synonyms: obtuse | |
| 6. adj. (geometry) Of an angle: less than 90 degrees. | |
| 7. adj. (geometry) Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees. | |
| Synonyms: acute-angled | |
| 8. adj. (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others. | |
| 9. adj. (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage. | |
| He dropped dead of an acute illness. | |
| 10. adj. (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity. | |
| The acute symptoms resolved promptly. | |
| 11. adj. (orthography) After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent. | |
| The last letter of ‘café’ is ‘e’ acute. | |
| 12. n. (medicine) A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia. | |
| 13. n. (linguistics, chiefly historical) An accent or tone higher than others. | |
| 14. n. (orthography) An acute accent (´). | |
| The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, phonetics) To give an acute sound to. | |
| He acutes his rising inflection too much. | |
| 16. v. (transitive, archaic) To make acute; to sharpen, to whet. | |
| discernment |
| 1. n. The ability to distinguish; judgement. | |
| 2. n. Discrimination. | |
| 3. n. The ability to distinguish between things. | |
| 4. n. The ability to perceive differences that exist. | |
| 5. n. The condition of understanding. | |
| 6. n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation. | |
| 7. n. Perceptiveness. | |
| 8. n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity. | |
| 9. n. Discretion in judging objectively. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| understanding |
| 1. n. Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature. | |
| 2. n. Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer. | |
| 3. n. Opinion, judgement or outlook. | |
| According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too. | |
| 4. n. An informal contract; mutual agreement. | |
| I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash. | |
| 5. n. A reconciliation of differences. | |
| The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding. | |
| 6. n. Sympathy. | |
| He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past. | |
| 7. adj. Showing compassion. | |
| 8. adj. (dated) Knowing; skilful. | |
| 9. v. present participle of understand | |
| understand |
| 1. v. To be aware of the meaning of. | |
| I understand German. | |
| I received your note, but I did not understand it. | |
| 2. v. To believe, based on information. | |
| I understand that you have information for me. | |
| 3. v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated. | |
| But we cannot disappoint Grandma and Grandpa Smith, and that is what family is all about! Do you understand?! | |
| In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle: | |
| In the imperative mood, the word “you” is usually understood. | |
| 4. v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support. | |
| 5. v. (circus, acrobatics) One who supports others in such performances as the human pyramid. | |
| insight |
| 1. n. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. | |
| 2. n. Power of acute observation and deduction | |
| 3. n. (marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers | |
| 4. n. Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition. | |
| 5. n. (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario. | |
| 6. n. (psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness. | |
