Words similar to intellect
Example sentences for: intellect
How can you use “intellect” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
… A faux-profile picks a man of the millennium: "With his cartwheeling intellect and generous heart; with his revolutionary brain and conservative gut ...
In a recent column lauding Bush, Will recalls the contest between three book-writers for president in 1912--Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft--noting that "such intellect in politics is rare, and perhaps should be."
They use language, humor, and a verbal fun activity to challenge a child’s intellect.
The OED2e lists about five dozen -ard words to describe people of unsavory character or underdeveloped intellect, and all but the handful above now languish in dusty disuse.
Critics such as Kazin and writers such as Saul Bellow--born the same year as Kazin--stretched out their intellect and imagination across disparate worlds and helped a generation of book-hungry immigrant offspring walk into American cultural life.