docile
Meaning: easily taught or trained
Usage: She successfully taught the docile puppy several tricks.
erudite
Meaning: learned
Usage: My Latin teacher is such an erudite scholar that he has translated some of the most difficult and abstruse ancient poetry.
perspicacity
Meaning: shrewdness, perceptiveness
Usage: The detective was too humble to acknowledge that his perspicacity was the reason for his professional success.
sagacity
Meaning: shrewdness, soundness of perspective
Usage: With remarkable sagacity, the wise old man predicted and thwarted his children’s plan to ship him off to a nursing home.
canny
Meaning: shrewd, careful
Usage: The canny runner hung at the back of the pack through much of the race to watch the other runners, and then sprinted past them at the end.
cerebral
Meaning: related to the intellect
Usage: The books we read in this class are too cerebral— they don’t engage my emotions at all.