Apt
Apt adjective - Mentally quick and resourceful.
Usage example: an apt pupil
Intelligent
Intelligent adjective - Having or showing quickness of mind.
Usage example: his intelligent response to the emergency averted a disaster
Apt is a synonym for intelligent in clever topic. You can use "Apt" instead an adjective "Intelligent", if it concerns topics such as able, very smart.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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It's rather apt, as both girls are attractive, intelligent, and snarky, and both initially rejected the advances of a suitor who was attractive, but way too full of himself.
- Turlough, who was constantly getting captured/locked up or otherwise abused, predominantly because the writers at the time had no real clue what to do with a male companion who was meant to be both intelligent and technically apt.
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