Word of the day: Keening

Keening: lamentação, lamúria, queixume, choradeira

Synonyms: delicate, fine, acute, perceptive, quick, sensitive, sharp

“She's a very keen observer of the political world.”

“…pilots with especially keen eyesight…”  (www.merriam-webster.com)

When you've been trying to remember something and you suddenly remember it, the mental pleasure is keen. —Ian Frazier, Atlantic, October 2004