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critic collapse: someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments; anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something; a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art

censor collapse: a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable; someone who censures or condemns; subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

knocker collapse: a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door; a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"; (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person

lexicographer collapse: a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language

scribe collapse: informal terms for journalists; French playwright (1791-1861); score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

editor collapse: a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

caviling collapse: quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

hypercritical collapse: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

inconsiderable collapse: too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"

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

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"

few collapse: a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"; an indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"; a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"

negligible collapse: so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"; not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"

peanut collapse: pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms; a young child who is small for his age; widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground; underground pod of the peanut vine

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

Mickey Mouse collapse: a fictional mouse created in animated film strips by Walt Disney

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