exiguous vs exigent
Definitions
adjective
- extremely scanty
Examples
I could with but slight difficulty find my way back to Jon IV, or Jon X, or Jon CLXXVI, Dei gratia capitulum, but Messrs. D & M do not even accord me that exiguous courtesy.
Given these exiguous resources, Faulkner's political achievements down to the end of 1973 were not inconsiderable.
My, you gave me an exiguous amount of time to answer that!
Definitions
adjective
- demanding attention
- requiring precise accuracy
Examples
Occasionally, a sufficiently serious religious news item appears that I find it necessary to eschew irony in order to assess, in a serious and sober way, the exigent theological quodlibet.
Sacraments are practical signs of an intentional order: they manifest God's intention to give spiritual benefits; this manifestation of the Divine intention is a title exigent of grace (op. cit., 59 sq., 123 sq.
His general improvidence and fecklessness kept his wife and family in perennially exigent financial circumstances, and his lawyers and accountants in a state bordering on despair.
