SAT vocabulary
Ossifying
undergoing or resulting in a change into bone; becoming rigid and unyielding in character or habit
Example
"Over decades of routine, the ossifying committee grew resistant to any modernization of its policies."
Etymology
From Latin os meaning 'bone' and facere meaning 'to make'
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