Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt from "The Oblong Box."
Now this shape was PECULIAR; and no sooner had I seen it, than I took credit to myself for the accuracy of my guessing. I
had reached the conclusion, it will be remembered, that the extra baggage of my friend, the artist, would prove to be
pictures, or at least a picture; for I knew he had been for several weeks in conference with Nicolino:-and now here was a
box, which, from its shape, COULD possibly contain nothing in the world but a copy of Leonardo's "Last Supper.".... This
point, therefore, I considered as sufficiently settled. I chuckled excessively when I thought of my acumen (paragraph 1)
What is the meaning of the word acumen as it is used in the text?
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OC.
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the inability to make decisions
the ability to think clearly
the ability to move quickly
the inability to speak clearly