Dictionary of English - perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, or perspicuous

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A perceptive person understands something readily or intuitively: So you realized I had lost? That was very perceptive of you. A percipient person is similar, but notices whatever it is quickly: The youngest members of the class were often the most percipient.

A perspicacious person is one who discerns or who understands something without needing an explanation: He was a perspicacious student of human nature, and knew how we would react. A perspicuous person is easy to understand: We then heard Anna's account, which although long was wonderfully clear and perspicuous.

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