What's the difference between exiguous and modicum?
Exiguous
Definition:
(a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although data are exiguous, justifying neither acceptance nor rejection of the hypothesis that ANF functions physiologically to regulate body fluid volume and arterial pressure, the current evidence slightly favors acceptance.
(2) There was an increase in phenotype HLA-DR7 incidence, with respect to a non-selective population and a decrease of HLA-DR1, as it has already been mentioned in the literature, the variations were not statistically significant taking into account the exiguity of the samples considered.
(3) Also, since there is a diminutive capacity for trust and an exiguous chance to reach out or respond to significant others, external soothingness becomes unobtainable.
(4) It follows a retro-aortic course and its terminal distribution is exiguous, compensated by a coronary pattern of right predominance.
Modicum
Definition:
(n.) A little; a small quantity; a measured simply.
Example Sentences:
(1) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.
(2) But I also hope I do so with a modicum of self-knowledge.
(3) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
(4) The early suffrage movement wanted to protect women as well as give them a modicum of power.
(5) In reality, the only harm that could ever come the way of these pseudonymous CIA agents would be in the form of more lawsuits from victims, given that the Justice Department gave up trying to prosecute any of them, and the White House gave up on even a modicum of accountability a while ago.
(6) The findings do support other cross-cultural studies, which have found only a modicum of shared variance between test anxiety and grades.
(7) It was unclear whether government officials had changed their minds or whether the police moves were an attempt to show the government could exert a modicum of control over the capital after the chaos of recent days.
(8) Further, the data reveal that the training led to CPNs extending their role in a variety of other ways even though they received only a modicum of support from colleagues within their own health authorities.
(9) Does he get at least a modicum of enjoyment out of the show’s production troubles?
(10) The same species were detected from lungs and peribronchial lymph nodes of calves, together with A. laidlawii, A. modicum and M. bovirhinis species.
(11) Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.
(12) Just like Sphero, BB-8 charges via induction in a Star Wars-branded cradle, is controlled via Bluetooth from an iPhone or Android smartphone and has a modicum of intelligence to sense its environment through bump mapping, similar to robot vacuums from iRobot and others.
(13) However, primary care physicians can perform a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions with a minimum of technology and a modicum of patience and understanding.
(14) Had the film-makers possessed a modicum of wit, though, they'd have marshalled some adorable woodland creatures to help her scrub the plates with their fluffy bottoms.
(15) He tends to reserve the trademark sneer, loaded first question and presumption of guilt for members of parliament and ministers – even those who, truth be told, wield only the most modest modicum of influence.
(16) Total glycolipid fractions and the aqueous phenol fractions (lipopolysaccharides) from the membranes of Acholeplasma laidlawii, A. modicum, A. axanthum, and Mycoplasma neurolyticum exhibited significant antigenic activity.
(17) And he appeared to question the idea that there was more to the job, as long as you had completed a modicum of training, than just turning up and running.
(18) Furthermore, blebbed colonies plaquing with a new virus specific to A. modicum.
(19) Alvaro Negredo, a second-half substitute, rescued a modicum of pride with a classy left-foot strike after 80 minutes but the late flurry, after Jérôme Boateng had been sent off for bringing down Yaya Touré, was a deception.
(20) But in his confessional mode, Hawthorne needed a modicum of disguise.