SAT vocabulary

Obstinacy

Stubborn refusal to yield or compromise, often to an inflexible or unreasonable degree

Example

"The minister's obstinacy alienated his closest allies, who pleaded with him to accept the negotiated compromise."

From Latin obstinatio, from obstinare ('to persist, stand firm'), from ob- ('against') + stare ('to stand').

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