Word of the Week - Sagacity

Do you feel like your vocabulary could do with a little zhushing?  Then this is the space for you!

Each week I will unearth a new word to play with.  If you would like to join in, write a post incorporating this week's word, then come back and leave a comment with your link so what we can all read your work.

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Enjoy using your zhushed vocabulary!

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Sagacity

[n]  foresight, discernment, keen perception, or wisdom.

The ability to make good judgements. 

Sagacity - A Poem

Despair to my mother was I in my youth,

For I was considered inept and uncouth;

Unkempt and unruly

Was infant Yours Truly.

Throughout tempestuous puberty

She battled my uncoutherty,

And with a stern unfoolishness

Coped with my unrulishness.

My mother (flushed with her success)

Then tackled my unkemptiness

And with relentless recitude

Conquered my ineptitude.

How well my mother schooled me,

How well my mother fooled me,

At last I've discovered the terrible truth -

It's no fun being ept, kempt, ruly or couth.

                                                                        Roslyn Taylor

So there is this week's word - sagacity, I can't wait to learn how you use it!

PS: Did you ever get a look like the one in the illustration from your own mother? 

It's fantastic isn't it? Drawn by the talented Len Dickson and available to purchase in his Etsy store. 

Looking into those eyes, I think that it could be subtitled 'Withering Wisdom'.