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• n  a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
• n  mental ability
• n  a witty amusing person who makes jokes

• Margaret Edson's affecting, Pulitzer prize-winning play about an English professor dying of cancer has been adapted for TV with taste and resourcefulness by director Mike Nichols.
• Sarkozy's Holiday Shows Political Wit .
• The former New York Senator, who died Wednesday at 76 from complications arising from a burst appendix, was known for his sharp wit and his nimble mind.

• humor
• humour
• witticism
• wittiness
• brain
• brainpower
• learning ability
• mental capacity
• mentality
• wag
• card

News & Articles

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• Nokia Siemens Networks and Wipro's New IT Partnership Model Wins Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award 2013
  LONDON and BANGALORE, India, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing company, and Nokia Siemens Networks, the world's specialist ...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Wim de Wit to step down at Getty Research Institute
  After 20 years at the Getty Research Institute, Wim de Wit, the head of the architecture and contemporary art offerings there and co-curator of the current Pacific Standard Time Presents initiative on modern architecture in Los Angeles, is leaving the institution.
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Review: A wacky, inspired 'Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream'
  Though Shakespeare’s Bottom claimed his dream was “past the wit of man” to describe, it’s well within the wit of the Troubadour Theater Company to revive in spectacular sequin-studded style with the return of “A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream” to Burbank’s Falcon Theatre.        
  June 12, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Kate Jackson in Twirlit
  Her Charlie's Angels co-star Kate Jackson said, "Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her: I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile: when...
• President Bush in Hartford Courant
  America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character,President Bush said in a statement from Camp David, where he was spending the weekend. "It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day. He brought wit, grace, and a great...
• Kevin Durant in bettor.com (blog)
  Posting to his followers Durant said "Extension for 5 more years wit [sic] the #thunder..........God Is Great, me and my family came a long way......I love yall man forreal, this a blessing!"