Vocabulary Word
Word: tenacious
Definition: holding fast (as to a belief); persistent
Definition: holding fast (as to a belief); persistent
Sentences Containing 'tenacious'
``That is a tenacious old grandfather,''said Beauchamp.
But the constitution of joint-stock companies renders them in general, more tenacious of established rules than any private copartnery.
Were not the memory tenacious to a certain degree, had not men commonly an inclination to truth and a principle of probity; were they not sensible to shame, when detected in a falsehood: Were not these, I say, discovered by experience to be qualities, inherent in human nature, we should never repose the least confidence in human testimony.
In this coffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty, that the smallest instalments could only be tempted out by artifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaborate scheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.
He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
More Vocab Words
::: subterfuge - stratagem(deceptive scheme); pretense; evasion; Ex. resort to a harmless subterfuge::: charlatan - quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine)
::: corrugated - wrinkled; ridged
::: drone - idle person who lives on other people's work; male bee
::: visionary - produced by imagination; fanciful; mystical; showing foresight; N: one having foresight; one given to speculative impractical ideas
::: insouciant - without concern or care; unconcerned; indifferent
::: deadlock - standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces; stalemate
::: lament - grieve; express sorrow; N. lamentation
::: interdict - prohibit; forbid; N.
::: seasoned - experienced
