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exacting

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore E words

making great demands and requiring much care or effort

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In a sentence

Exacting in a sentence

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The watchmaker's exacting standards left no room for sloppiness.

Synonyms
demandingrigorousstringent
Antonyms
lenienteasygoingundemanding

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Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Questions about “exacting”

Exacting (adjective) means making great demands and requiring much care or effort
Here is exacting used in an example sentence: "The watchmaker's exacting standards left no room for sloppiness."
Common synonyms for exacting include demanding, rigorous, stringent.
Antonyms of exacting include lenient, easygoing, undemanding.
Exacting is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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