Today’s “Word of the Day” is “intransigence“ and it is a noun meaning “unreasonable refusal or unwillingness to change/compromise on something (view, attitude, behaviour, position); inflexibility, obstinacy, rigidity, single-mindedness, stubbornness”.
Example Sentence: Even as a real war rages on, tennis seems to be at war with itself. The recent Wimbledon row has opened a wide fissure (gap) in an already fractured sport. The removal of ranking points at Wimbledon by tennis tour operators is a scalding (distressing) rebuke (sharp disapproval/criticism) to the intransigence displayed by the oldest Slam in banning Russian and Belarusian players.
This word is present in The Hindu article The faults in tennis and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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