GRE Word List

FASTIDIOUS

showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care

The meaning of the word fastidious is showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care.

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adjunctsomething joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
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nexusconnection
stanzaa division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
oustto remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity
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headlongheadfirst
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