In a sentence
Six example sentences with captious, each labelled with its topic.
The captious diner sent back the soup twice, once for temperature and once because the bowl was the wrong shade.
Cooking
A captious judge marked down my landscape for a horizon two degrees off, ignoring the light I had waited hours for.
Photography
Nothing shipped that quarter because a captious reviewer kept flagging font sizes in documents no customer would ever open.
Business
A captious reviewer counted the commas in the first chapter and never mentioned what the novel was about.
Literature
The captious examiner stopped the student twice over the angle of her elbow before she had played eight bars.
Music
The seminar's most captious member objected to every definition on the grounds that one word in it was undefined.
Philosophy
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- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
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