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Finicky
Adjective Meaning: Extremely particular or excessively meticulous in taste or standards Fastidious; punctilious; over-particular; over critical; perfectionist; pernickety
Usage: My professor is finicky about spelling
Abstruse (UB-STROOSS)
Adjective Meaning: Difficult to comprehend; recondite Esoteric; obscure; arcane; rarefied; complex; incomprehensible; mysterious
Usage: Those breakthroughs were so abstruse that summarizing them was like trying to
explain class 12th Mathematics to a 3 year old child
Wiseacre
Noun Meaning: One who PRETENDS to knowledge or cleverness; a person with an affectation
(pretension) of wisdom or knowledge and is regarded with scorn by others
Usage: You should quit being a wiseacre and help your mother
Proliferate
Verb Meaning: Multiply; to grow; to increase in number; to grow or increase
in number rapidly
Usage: New problems have proliferated in the recent days
This trend of proliferating weapons of mass destruction is indeed alarming
Raddled (RAD-uld)
Adjective Meaning: Lacking composure; being in a state of confusion; broken down
Usage: He was a raddled clerk in the customer service and he would pervasively be
petrified to receive calls