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Acumen
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So is propitiate. Does it mean:
| severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising, strict or forbidding; rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral |
| appease |
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acumen
1530s, from L. acumen "a point, sting," hence "sharpness, shrewdness," from acuere "to sharpen" (see acuity).
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