verb
- Claim as due or just.
- usage: "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
- synonyms: demand
- Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.
- usage: "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
adjective
- Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.
- usage: "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"
- Of ideas, images, representations, expressions. ( characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct)
- usage: "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
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