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A.Word.A.Day--percipient Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio percipient (per-SIP-ee-ant) adjective Having the power of perceiving, especially perceiving keenly and readily. noun One that perceives. [Latin percipiens, percipient-, present participle of percipere, to perceive.] "With an irony that even the percipient Musil could not quite have appreciated, the novel was dedicated at its outset to `German (de, German and Austrian) youth of the future ... who will have to begin exactly where we stopped before the war'." Binding, Paul, The Man Without Qualities (book reviews), New Statesman & Society, 15 Mar 1996. This week's theme: words to describe people. X-Bonus Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary]

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