Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications.acutelya‧cute‧ly /əˈkjuːtli/ ●○○ adverb 
Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications. acutely embarrassed
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- acutely ill patients
- He was acutely aware of everything that had gone on in front of the then roaring fire.
- I am acutely aware of a further objection.
- In February 1974, they feared acutely that a Labour victory would reverse their achievement.
- In Washington his face became so acutely inflamed and swollen that he sought out a local physician.
- Katherine was suddenly acutely aware that he sounded boyish, happy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES They were well aware that the company was losing money.
feeling or noticing something very stronglyacutely aware/conscious (of/that) Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications. They were well aware that the company was losing money. (=extremely embarrassed)· The government must be acutely embarrassed by the minister’s behaviour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· It reveals instead a man who is acutely aware of his image.· But repetition is what I am acutely aware of now.· Indeed many of the pluralist writers were acutely aware of inequalities in the distribution of power.· The presence of the baby nurse had made him and Rhoda acutely aware of what a dump they lived in.· She turned over, acutely aware of the man on the other side of the door and angry at her own awareness.· Floyd became acutely aware of the gigantic forces coiled up around him, waiting to be released.· The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language.· Brownson himself was acutely aware of the paradox that existed.
· A conveyancer must be acutely conscious of the problems a conflict of interest might impose.· He was at that point of drunkenness where, acutely conscious of it, he made an effort to hide it.· Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.· We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.· He was acutely conscious of the fact that his life hung on a twitch of his captor's trigger finger.· They are acutely conscious of having failed parental expectations.· Hannah was acutely conscious of Max.
· In times of war and similar threats we are acutely sensitive of anything that is faintly seditious.· We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering, perhaps because of our origins in prehistory?· No more: Mr Clinton won eight western states last November and is acutely sensitive to western politics.· Unfortunately, anxious and stressed people become acutely sensitive to such fluctuations making them worse by their own concern.· All three are acutely sensitive, perceptive musicians.
VERB· Anxious people become acutely sensitized to their bodies, noticing minor bodily changes upon which they focus.· Floyd became acutely aware of the gigantic forces coiled up around him, waiting to be released.· I became acutely aware of people staring at me from the towpath and from the water itself.· In situations like this, when you are receptive to the point of rawness, you become acutely aware of it.· Unfortunately, anxious and stressed people become acutely sensitive to such fluctuations making them worse by their own concern.· Since the baby nurse had arrived, Kramer had also become acutely aware of the way his wife talked.· Her feelings about this man might be ambiguous to the point of causing insanity, but she became acutely aware of something.· In doses far below those used for anesthetic purposes, ketamine makes normal people become acutely psychotic.
· She felt an absolute wreck, yet at the same time she felt acutely self-aware.· In any case the number of dwellings actually completed by 1950 was pathetically small, and housing shortages were felt acutely elsewhere.· The deprivation of family and social ties seem most acute although loss of liberty is also acutely felt.· Whatever she wore, she'd feel acutely self-conscious.· He felt acutely that he lacked the authenticity that the popular vote bestows upon a leader.· They felt acutely the loss of their skilled experience.· Of course Silas knew she was in love with him, she decided, feeling acutely embarrassed.
Students are becoming acutely aware that they need more than just paper qualifications. acutely embarrassed