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41Eric Clapton Stratocaster — Infobox Guitar model title=Pagename bgcolor=#FFFFFF manufacturer=Fender period=1988 Present bodytype=Solid necktype=Bolt on woodbody=Alder woodneck=Maple woodfingerboard=Maple bridge=Blocked Synchronized Tremolo pickups=(2001 Present): 3 Vintage… …
42Kafka, Franz — born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria Hungary died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria Czech writer who wrote in German. Born into a middle class Jewish family, he earned a doctorate and then worked successfully but unhappily at a… …
43critical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. exacting, captious, censorious, faultfinding, disparaging; judicious, accurate, analytical; decisive; urgent, crucial; dangerous, risky. See disapprobation, importance, detraction. II (Roget s IV)… …
44hard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. firm, rigid (see hardness); unsympathetic, unloving, unfriendly, callous; strenuous, difficult, puzzling; severe, serious, short, intensive. See insensibility. Ant., soft. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
45particular — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. demanding, painstaking, meticulous; definite, specific; fussy, finicky, per[s]nickety, overnice; special, outstanding; personal; precise, exact. See taste, importance. n. fact, specification, datum …
46strict — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. exact, precise; rigid; accurate, meticulous, scrupulous, punctilious, conscientious, nice; stringent, exacting; straitlaced, puritanical. See truth, severity. Ant., lenient. II (Roget s IV) modif.… …
47critical — 1 Critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, caviling, carping, censorious are comparable when they mean exhibiting the spirit of one who detects and points out faults or defects. Critical, when applied to persons who judge and to their… …
48nice — 1 Nice, dainty, fastidious, finicky, finicking, finical, particular, fussy, squeamish, persnickety, pernickety can all mean exacting or displaying exacting standards (as in selection, judgment, or workmanship). Nice (see also CORRECT, DECOROUS)… …
49severe — severe, stern, austere, ascetic can all mean given to or characterized by strict discipline and firm restraint. Severe is applicable to persons and their looks, acts, thoughts, and utterances or to things (as laws, penalties, judgments, and… …
50onerous — [än′ər əs, ōn′ər əs] adj. [ME < MFr onereus < L onerosus < onus, a load: see ONUS] 1. burdensome; laborious 2. Law involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits [onerous lease] onerously adv. onerousness n. SYN.… …
