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::: punctilious - minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points; stressing niceties of conduct or form; N. punctilio, punctiliousness: careful attention payed to every small exact detail
::: axiom - self-evident truth requiring no proof
::: nettle - irritate; annoy; vex; ADJ. nettlesome
::: crypt - secret recess or vault usually used for burial; underground room (under a church)
::: concise - brief and compact
::: aquiline - curved; hooked; of or like an eagle; Ex. aquiline nose
::: gourmand - epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink
::: psychosomatic - of the influence of the mind on the body (esp. with respect to disease)
::: vendetta - blood feud (esp. between two families); CF. Nina Williams
::: parsimony - stinginess; excessive frugality; ADJ. parsimonious