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precocious
adjective as in exceptionally smart, ahead of age in understanding
Example Sentences
“Sometimes you can win the Juvenile with a precocious kind of horse. … Citizen Bull won it but he had distance limitations.”
The precocious girls soon cotton on to the headmistress’s ruse and parry her appeals to dish on Miss Brodie.
With that goal before the international break, he broke yet another record in his remarkably precocious career.
She approaches the American experiment from myriad angles, drawing on protagonists such as Jane Franklin, Ben Franklin’s precocious sister, and the Simulmatics Corp., whose pioneering computer algorithms still shape our reality.
A precocious draftsman, Goff began working at a Tulsa, Okla., architecture firm at age 12 and by 22 had designed what is still one of Tulsa’s great monuments: the bursting-with-wild-detail Boston Avenue United Methodist Church.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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