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Word of the Day ArchiveThursday September 7, 2006 pervicacious

pervicacious \puhr-vih-KAY-shuhs\, adjective:Refusing to change one's ideas, behavior, etc.; stubborn; obstinate.

• In fact, I'm a word nerd. I get a kick out of tossing a few odd ones intomy column, just to see if the pervicacious editors will weed them out.-- Michael Hawley, "Things That Matter: Waiting for Linguistic Viagra", Technology Review, June, 2001
• One of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of.-- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
• The language of the bureaucrats and administrators must needs be recognized as an outgrowth of legal parlance. There is no other way to explain itspervading, pervicacious and pernicious meanderings.-- New York Law Journal, May 27, 1909

Pervicacious is from Latin pervicax, pervicac-, "stubborn, headstrong," from root pervic- of pervincere, "to carry ones point, maintain ones opinion," from per-, "through, thoroughly" + vincere, "to conquer, prevail against" + the suffix -ious, "characterized by, full of."

Monthly Readings September 2006

September 1, 2006: PCMag. Glide Effortless. Review of Web-based operating system
September 1, 2006: Kevin Moore's retirement speech
September 4, 2006: eWeek. Web Surfers Anonymous. Review
September 6, 2006: PCMag. Google News Adds Newspaper Archives.
September 6, 2006: The Atlantic. Number of college graduates per 100 people, relative to the national average.
September 6, 2006: Slate. Checked and Imbalanced - The President Tries for a Do-Over in his Gitmo Speech. Lithwick, Dahlia.
September 6, 2006: Slate. Have You Driven Out a Ford Lately? Why Bill Ford Couldn't Hack It as CEO of the Family Company.
September 7, 2006: PCMag. Digital Camera Basics: Understanding Exposure 050321
September 7, 2006: PCMag. Digital Camera Basics: Mastering Color Controls 050906

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