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Answer : STICKLER
stickler – n
someone who insists on something; “a stickler for promptness”
SYNONYMS
authoritarian, disciplinarian, discipliner, martinet micromanager, taskmaster, taskmistress
IN A SENTENCE
Her father was a stickler about arriving on time.
Fulfill your commitments to the best of your ability in March and be a stickler about responsibilities.
ETYMOLOGY
1530s, “moderator, umpire,” agent noun from stickle “mediate” (1520s), probably a frequentative of Middle English stighten “to arrange, place,” from Old English stihtan “to rule, direct, arrange, order,” which is cognate with Middle Dutch stichten, German stiften “to found, establish,” probably from Proto-Germanic *stihtan “to place on a step or base,” from PIE root *steigh- “to stride, step, rise” (see stair). Meaning “person who contends or insists stubbornly” is first recorded 1640s.
More Clues
- HARDCASE Person not easily swayed by sentiment
- OBDURATE Convert a doubter not easily swayed
- SUSCEPTIBLE Easily swayed by feelings
- STICKLER Person not easily budged
- APNEA Loss of breath starts to alarm person not easily alarmed
- LIMPET Loose film showing person not easily removed
- EMOTIONAL Readily moved by sentiment
- IN GOOD ODOUR Surrounded by sentiment: dead bird, cut short, our much loved
- AMENABLE Easily swayed
- SIDEWAYS Is swayed by its thus going laterally
- SIT TIGHT Refuse to be diverted by view one non-drinker held
- MORIARTY Napoleon of crime affected by opinion pollsters
- ARRIVE AT Reach by thought or effort
- UNMOVED Not swayed by a French film without independent director
- SOFT Easily swayed
- DUPES Deceitfully uses people easily swayed, initially
- SUGGESTIBILITY Capacity to be easily swayed
- PLIANT Easily swayed
- PLIABLE Easily swayed or bendable
- SUPPLE Easily swayed?
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