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21Adams, Samuel — born Sept. 27, 1722, Boston, Mass. died Oct. 2, 1803, Boston, Mass., U.S. American Revolutionary leader. A cousin of John Adams, he graduated from Harvard College in 1740 and briefly practiced law. He became a strong opponent of British taxation… …
22Bramante, Donato — born 1444, probably at Monte Asdruvaldo, Duchy of Urbino died April 11, 1514, Rome Italian architect and perspectivist painter. The son of a farmer, he was working as a painter by 1477. His early architectural works included the church of Santa… …
23Roger II — born Dec. 22, 1095 died Feb. 26, 1154, Palermo Grand count of Sicily (1105–30) and king of Sicily (1130–54). The son of Roger I, he was a capable and energetic ruler who incorporated the mainland territories of Calabria (1122) and Apulia (1127).… …
24mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
25puritanical — adjective /pjɚ.ɪ.tæn.ɪ.kl,pjɚ.ɪ.tæn.ik.l̩,pjʊə(ɹ).ɪ.tæn.ɪ.kəl/ a) Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. b) Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; mdash; often used… …
26careful — Synonyms and related words: Scotch, accurate, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aware, calculating, canny, cautious, chary, cheeseparing, circumspect, concentrated, conscientious, conscionable, conscious,… …
27conscientious — Synonyms and related words: accurate, active, attentive, careful, cautious, censorious, choicy, choosy, circumspect, close, compliant, conforming, conscionable, constant, correct, critical, deferential, delicate, demanding, detailed, devoted,… …
28fastidious — Synonyms and related words: accurate, appreciative, bleached, bright, careful, censorious, choicy, choosy, civilized, clean, cleanly, conscientious, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, differential, difficult, dirt free,… …
29hairsplitting — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, contradistinction, critical,… …
30hypercritical — Synonyms and related words: captious, carping, caviling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, faultfinding, hairsplitting, hypersensitive, morbidly sensitive, nagging, niggling, overconscientious, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous,… …
