acute sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacuteandsense
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acute
adjective
uk/əˈkjuːt/us/əˈkjuːt/
If a bad situation is acute, it causes severe problems ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofacuteandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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His anger imparted hisacutesenseof betrayal and the necessity of vindicating his maturity.
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Thisacutesenseof time does not eclipse the role of philosophy.
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This social transfiguration, accompanied by an industrial decline, is believed to have caused anacutesenseof deprivation amongst the city's subordinate social groups.
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Complementary to this is anacutesenseof key relationships and a love of the harmonic and tonal colour derived from progressions into obscure and remote keys and their inversions.
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In many guilds too, anacutesenseof distance and complexity of government at a difficult time gave rise to shifts in the politics of the community.
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Trade unions are influential because membership is directly connected to the livelihood of members; trade union members, therefore, have anacutesenseof linked fate.
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Even those that worked within the movement have anacutesenseof shock that it was so gross, they did not know the extent to which violence had descended.
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In the meantime, public servants of all classes have suffered anacutesenseof injustice.
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There was anacutesenseof loss while inside.
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Every child and every parent who has to go through the selective structure feels anacutesenseof shame.
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More than most, they have anacutesenseof what life is.
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These people show anacutesenseof distress because of this problem.
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The planning of new power stations is being held up, because of theacutesenseof disquiet and indecision which prevails.
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The consequence of living with fear is anacutesenseof isolation, of being cut off from one's own fellow men and women.
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In such communities there is anacutesenseof abandonment, desolation and hopelessness.
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And though editors give patient consideration to the suggestions made by public relations officers they show anacutesenseof discrimination in dealing with this spate of words.
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There is anacutesenseof deprivation.
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That reasoning ignores the higher social organisation of elephant clans, their ability to communicate over several kilometres by means of infrasonic distress calls and theiracutesenseof smell.
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A dog'sacutesenseof smell allows them to find the wounded birds in swamps or marshes where weeds can allow a duck to hide.
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They hunt primarily by sound and scent, and they have anacutesenseof hearing.
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