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apercu

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A`per`cu´    (å`pâr`s
n.1.A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.
The main object being to develop the several aperçus or insights which furnish the method of such psychology.
- W. T. Harris.
A series of partial and more or less disparate aperçus or outlooks; each for itself a center of experience.
- James Ward.
2.Hence, a brief or detached view; conspectus; sketch.
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Noun1.apercu - a short synopsis
precis, synopsis, abstract, outline - a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory


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A startling political apercu from the dean of the Columbia Journalism School: "The South's political differentness, racial in origin if not in explicit content, has been an impediment to presidential ambition.
The 'Democrat' tic, Lucky Louie, and more by The Weekly Standard
This glum apercu has been much with me as we move into the home stretch of the 2006 mid-term elections and shimmy into the starting gates of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Let's quit while we're behind by Buckley, Christopher / Washington Monthly
Bloom tosses off some such apercu on every other page.
Father & Son? by Miles, Jack / Commonweal
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