Word of the Day:
shrewdness
What It Means
The quality of being shrewd.
A group of apes.
Shrewdness in Context
“Larry was dragged off by a shrewdness of apes (a group of apes is called a shrewdness)”
Did You Know?
Inherited from Middle English schrewednesse. By surface analysis, shrewd + -ness.
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