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captious collapse: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

exponent collapse: a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself; someone who expounds and interprets or explains

arbiter collapse: someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion"

referee collapse: (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play; an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case; evaluate professionally a colleague's work; be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

scold collapse: someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

category collapse: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

hatchet man collapse: one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior; a professional killer

ghost collapse: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"; the visible disembodied soul of a dead person; write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"; move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

suborder collapse: (biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an order

stickler collapse: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

beak collapse: horny projecting mouth of a bird; beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles); informal terms for the nose

moderator collapse: someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence; someone who presides over a forum or debate; in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly; any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors

subgroup collapse: (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group; a distinct and often subordinate group within a group

technician collapse: someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process; someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique

aficionado collapse: a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer; a fan of bull fighting

related collapse: connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage; being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics ; "painting and the related arts"; "school-related activities"; "related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces"

caste collapse: a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth; (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity; social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"

epicurean collapse: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"; of Epicurus or epicureanism; "Epicurean philosophy"

description collapse: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"; a statement that represents something in words; the act of describing something

genre collapse: a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work

genus collapse: a general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism"; (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

epicure collapse: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

dilettante collapse: showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

stratum collapse: one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)

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

specialist collapse: an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning; practices one branch of medicine

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

species collapse: a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"; (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

status collapse: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"

indicator collapse: a device for showing the operating condition of some system; a signal for attracting attention; (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction

blood collapse: temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"; the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries waste products away"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"; people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"; smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

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