10.21.2004 - 11:05 am

pe�dan�tic (p-dntk)
adj.

Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.

Studying for the Ph.D. exam is like taking the Bar Exam, or the Boards for medical school. I need to be more pedantic!

And the word of the day is:

Brob�ding�nag�i�an (brbdng-ng-n) adj.

Immense; enormous. [After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]

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