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choose collapse: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"; select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"; see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"

selective collapse: tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown; characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions"

elective collapse: subject to popular election; "elective official"; not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study"

discriminating collapse: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"

conscientious collapse: characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"; guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"

censorious collapse: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

priggish collapse: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

fastidious collapse: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"; having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

perfectionist collapse: a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards

constituent collapse: (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction; a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected"

eclectic collapse: someone who selects according to the eclectic method; selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

meticulous collapse: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"; marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

precise collapse: sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"

scrupulous collapse: having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance"

precious collapse: of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones"; extremely; "there is precious little time left"

sensitive collapse: of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security; hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"; responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"; being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; "sensitive to the local community and its needs"

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