I have been mostly retired for about the last three years. Unfortunately, I am not doing what I want with my retirement due to the confines of caring for my invalid wife. Still, I am making the best of it. I do not have near as much time in retirement as I thought I would and sometimes wonder where the time goes. A lot of my time goes to blogging. I have blogged for about twelve years, now. My blog, called A Disgruntled Republican , takes a lot of my time. Much of that time is simply devoted to being informed. One thing I have found in retirement is time to read at a more leisurely pace. I have read National Review most of my adult life, but always was behind on the reading and never took the time to read the "other" parts of the magazine. I would read the news analysis and feature articles, but seldom read the humor column or the book reviews or movie reviews. I don't think I had ever read until recently the "Arts and Manners" section....
Perspicacious pur-spə-kā-shuhs Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, 17th century 1 Highly perceptive, keen 2 Discerning, shrewd Examples of Perspicacious in a sentence "The perspicacious 9-year-old easily picked up on my feelings without me even saying anything." "I take a perspicacious approach to my studies, analyzing every word in my textbooks." Reposted from Word Genius .
Word of the day: perfidy Context: The president clearly meant that Comey had been falsely depicting him as complicit in Russia's perfidy , but Democrats pounced, spinning Trup's statements as admission .... Source: National Review ; April, 22, 2019; Mueller's Folly ; page 19. Perfidy: per·fi·dy [ˈpərfədē] NOUN, deceitfulness; untrustworthiness. Comment: This is another word that I should have known but could not define. It is not a new word but I could not define it.
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