INCISIVE

(adj.) suitable for cutting or piercing
"incisive teeth"
(adj.) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
"an acute observer of politics and politicians", "incisive comments", "icy knifelike reasoning", "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang", "penetrating insight", "frequent penetrative observations"
synonyms : acute , discriminating , keen , knifelike , penetrating , penetrative , piercing , sharp
Roger was an acute observer of politics and politicians. -added by naila_inlas

Mnemonics for incisive

(Tag: English) incisive can be correlated with our incisor teeth. which is very sharp both in human and animal, and they use it to cut food thus incisive= incisor= cutting
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(Tag: ) Incisive-> It has come from Incision cutting, esp. by a surgeon. Also , Incision sounds similar to scissor (which are your four sharp teeth) used for cutting.
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(Tag: ) incisive sounds like insensitive >>> some one who is insensitive can kill someone with some sharp device or his words, etc
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(Tag: ) incisive---incisor...cisor which is used to cut something is sharp :)
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