Shrewd

 

But this knowledge, which the shrewdest perceptions of the mind would not have given me, had now been brought to me, hard, glittering, strange, like a crystallised salt, by the abrupt reaction of pain.

 

 

 

SHREWD

   기민한, 상황판단이 빠른

   having or based on a clear understanding and good judgment of a situation, resulting in an advantage

 

  He was shrewd enough not to take the job when there was the possibility of getting a better one a few months later.

  She is a shrewd politicain who wants to avoid offending the electorate unnecessarily.

  It was a shrewd move to buy your house just before property prices started to rise.

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