a. The convert who is more punctilious in his new faith than the lifelong communicant is a familiar figure in Catholic lore.

b. Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.

a. Dessert included a marvelous bread pudding and a fair bananas Foster,the old-time New Orleans dish, which was prepared with great panache tableside, complete with a flambé moment.

b. Dash or flamboyance in manner or style.

c. puh- NAHSH

d. noun

a.It is this elegiac concept of happiness that transforms existence into a forest preserve of memory for Proust.

b.Used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.

c.el-i-JAHY-uhk

d. adjective

a. Before that election, Maine's proud citizens had fancied their state to be a sort of bellwether, a notion embodied in the saying "As Maine goes, so goes the nation."

b. A leader of a movement or activity; also, a leading indicator of future trends.

c.BEL-weth-uhr

d.noun

fey

a. Beneath a fey manner, his mother was highly competitive.

b.Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.

c. FAY

d. Adjective