Word of the Day: OBDURATE

Hard-hearted and inflexible

obdurate (adj) - stubbornly persistent or resistant to persuasion or pity; refusing to reform or repent [ob-doo-rit]

BREAKDOWN: OB- (against) + DUR- (hard) + -ATE (being)

• obduracy is a stubborn refusal to change, yield, or cooperate

“The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.” —Roselle Mercier Montgomery