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Herculean collapse: extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"; displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions"

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"

pressing collapse: a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press; compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

summarize collapse: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

exigent collapse: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"

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

recount collapse: an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election; count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"

momentous collapse: of very great significance; "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event"

parade collapse: a visible display; "she made a parade of her sorrows"; a ceremonial procession including people marching; an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; "a parade of strollers on the mall"; "a parade of witnesses"; march in a procession; "the veterans paraded down the street"; walk ostentatiously; "She parades her new husband around town"

canvass collapse: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign

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

destructive collapse: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"

rescript collapse: a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality

abbreviation collapse: shortening something by omitting parts of it; a shortened form of a word or phrase

read collapse: something that is read; "the article was a very good read"; to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"; interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"; look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"; interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"; obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"; indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"; audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"; have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"

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"

yearbook collapse: a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students

crying collapse: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"; noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend"

palate collapse: the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities

discourse collapse: extended verbal expression in speech or writing; to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The article covered all the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"

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

abstruse collapse: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

ask collapse: make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a loan"; consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"; inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times"; direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question"; address a question to and expect an answer from; "Ask your teacher about trigonometry"; "The children asked me about their dead grandmother"; require or ask for as a price or condition; "He is asking $200 for the table"; "The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage"

chew collapse: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow; a wad of something chewable as tobacco; chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"

gloss collapse: an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text; provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase; provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written"; give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

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