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Adjective: exigent  ek-si-junt
  1. Demanding attention
    "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"
    - clamant, crying, insistent, instant
     
  2. Requiring precise accuracy
    "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
    - exacting

See also: demanding, exigency, imperative

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