SAT vocabulary

Pertinacity

The quality of being firmly persistent, tenacious, or resolutely unyielding

Example

"The investigative reporter's pertinacity eventually unearthed the financial records that brought down the corrupt syndicate."

From Latin pertinax, from per- ('thoroughly') + tenax ('holding fast', from tenere).

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