Strict
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense. Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Severe in discipline.
Example sentence: When John, my husband, was alive, he had a strict timetable. We would get up at 7:30 every morning and go out to breakfast, and I'd have a little nap in the afternoon if I had a show to do at night.
Exact
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.To make desirable or necessary.To forcibly obtain or produce.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctualPrecisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
Example sentence: He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.