SAT vocabulary
Balk
to refuse abruptly, hesitate to accept, or recoil from doing something
Example
"The committee agreed to basic reforms but balked at the proposed abolition of member dues."
Etymology
From Middle English 'balken', originally denoting an unplowed ridge of land that stops a plow
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