punct

Usage

• punctuate

  If an activity is punctuated by something, it is interrupted or emphasized by it at intervals.

• compunction

  If you feel compunction about doing something, you feel that you should not do it because it is bad or wrong.

• punctilious

  To be punctilious is to pay precise attention to detail.

• acupuncture

  treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin

• poignancy

  a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow

• punctilio

  a fine point of etiquette or petty formality

• punctual

  acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed

• punctuality

  the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time

• punctuated

  interrupted or emphasized at intervals

• punctuation

  something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions

• puncture

  pierce with a pointed object