Pedant GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
Pedant GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /ˈped.ənt/ (noun) Definition someone who is preoccupied with formal rules and details, doctrinaire, sophist, obfuscator, pedagogue, nitpicker, schoolmaster, theoretician, scholar, hairsplitter Example A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/ Antonym dilettante … Read more
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This lesson was published on Mar 28, 2021 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl