pe·dan·tic 
(pə-dăntĭk)
(pə-dăntĭk)adj.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
pe·danti·cal·ly adv.
- authentically
- authenticate
- authentication
- authenticator
- authenticity
- author
- authorial
- authoritarian
- authoritarianism
- authoritative
- authoritatively
- authoritativeness
- authority
- authorization
- authorize
- Authorized Version
- authorizer
- authorship
- autism
- autism spectrum
- autism spectrum disorder
- autist
- autistic
- autistically
- autistic savant