- A copper needs men with perspicacity
- Ability to judge well
- Ability to make good judgments
- Discernment
- Keen Insight
- Mental acuteness
- Mental acuteness, discernment
- Cantankerous
- Cranky about having to return the Spanish biro and Indian dress
- Curmudgeonly
- Easily angered
- Grumpy
- Irritable
- Petulant
- Cantankerous
- Cranky
- Crotchety
- Easily angered
- Grumpy
- Irritable
- Irritable as one could be about exams?
- Double-quick
- In a rush
- Insistently
- Right now
- In an urgent manner.
- Decomposable
- Quick-decaying
- Subject to decay
- Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or
death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.