This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
pertinacious
Pronounced: (PURR-tin-ay-shuss)
Adjective:
stubbornly unyielding
From Vocabulary.com: “If you won’t take no for an answer, you’re pertinacious. The same holds true if you stubbornly push on a door despite a sign that says “pull.” Pertinacious means unyielding or perversely persistent. We get pertinacious from the Latin pertinx, which combines per- “thoroughly” with tenx “tenacious.”
Example:
“The pertinacious buyer simply wouldn’t accept compromises, and ended up missing out on a number of near-perfect properties.”
