Today’s “Word of the Day” is “obdurate“ and it is an adjective meaning “stubborn, headstrong, firm, fixed, stony, inflexible, intransigent, persistent, relentless, unmanageable, unbending, unyielding, uncompromising”.
Example Sentence: The latest cost of living figures for the UK highlight the need to find out what is causing inflation to be so obdurate. Sure, there was a fall last month, but financial markets did not expect the annual rate to remain above 10%, and nor did the Bank of England. The government is having to cope with a combination of weak growth, high inflation and strikes over pay. With a general election getting ever closer, that’s a potentially toxic mix.
This word is present in This isn’t wage-price inflation, it’s greedflation – and big companies are to blame and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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