Showing posts with label insight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insight. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2011

incite, insight, in sight

Incite or incite means to encourage or rouse to action--
The demagogue meant to incite the crowd to riot.
It is unlawful to suggest violent crime. A speaker should know better than to incite mayhem.

Insight or insight ( always one word, rhymes with incite ) means a form of perception or intuition, such as a particular mental grasp of the reality of something, or of the true nature of something or someone--
The lecturer offered the audience some interesting insight into the problems of foreign relations.
Some people hope a therapist can offer insight into their emotional problems.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Professional insight on the psychology of crowds may help us discern which speaker might incite a crowd to riot."

Note--not to be confused with the phrase "in sight" ( two words ), meaning visible to the eye, or in view--
Do you see the bus? Is it anywhere in sight?