What Word Means to Figure out?
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perceptive Add to list Share. If someone calls you perceptive, they mean you are good at understanding things or figuring things out. Perceptive is derived from the Latin word percipere which means “to obtain or gather.” A perceptive person is good at gathering information and using her senses to take in the world.