✅ A perfectionist is a person who demands that they, or the things they do, be perfect all of the time (He was a perfectionist who was never happy with his work).

✅ A fusspot is a person who is especially fussy and who often finds fault or is unnecessarily picky (Being a fusspot made her difficult to work with at times).

✅ A perfectionist expects excellence of themselves and will often see flaws that no one else will notice (Being a perfectionist annoyed even himself sometimes). A fusspot is a person who finds fault unnecessarily or who is anxious about small details (He was a fusspot who paid too much attention to things no one cared about).

✅ Not all perfectionists fuss a lot, pick at things, or find fault with other people. However, it’s quite common for them to direct those traits at themselves.

✅ Rely means to depend on or put your trust in someone (I know I can rely on my friends when I need help).

✅ Lean means to depend on someone (My best friend and I lean on each other when we find it hard to cope).

✅ Lean particularly suggests trusting in someone’s emotional or personal support, whereas rely is a little more general (I rely on the rulebook to make sure I don’t make a mistake; I hope my family feels they can lean on me when they need to).

✅ A miser is a stingy person, often one who lives in unnecessarily uncomfortable circumstances in order to save money (A millionaire lives in that run-down house, but he’s such a miser you’d never know he had money).

✅ A churl is also a stingy person, especially one who is mean or unpleasant (She’s such a churl that she makes other people pay for her even though she can afford to pay herself).

✅ Miser and churl both refer to someone who is more than just frugal; they spend as little money as possible and are often rude and unpleasant about it.

✅ Sometimes, miser and churl can refer to someone who is stingy with things other than money, such as love and affection (She was a miser with praise; He was a churl with his attention).