Vocabulary : Exacerrating to Exaction

Exacerrating : of Exacerbate
Exacervation : The act of heaping up.
Exacinate : To remove the kernel form.
Exacination : Removal of the kernel.
Exacritude : The quality of being exact; exactness.

Exact : Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. ;; Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. ;; Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. ;; To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. ;; To practice exaction.
Exacted : of Exact
Exacter : An exactor.
Exacting : of Exact ;; Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
Exaction : The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. ;; That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.

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