saga-city

sa·gac·i·ty

[suh-gas-i-tee]
noun
acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.

Origin:
1540–50; < Latin sagācitās wisdom, equivalent to sagāci- (stem of sagāx) wise (akin to seek) + -tās -ty2

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sagacity (səˈɡæsɪtɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
foresight, discernment, or keen perception; ability to make good judgments

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Saga-city is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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sagacity
1540s, from M.Fr. sagacité, from L. sagacitatem (nom. sagacitas) "quality of being acute," from sagax (gen. sagacis) "of quick perception," related to sagus "prophetic," sagire "perceive keenly," from PIE base *sag- "to track down, trace, seek" (cf. O.E. secan "to seek;" see
seek). Also used 17c.-18c. of animals, meaning "acute sense of smell."
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