This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on June 19, 2014.
Let’s do a practice round!
Obdurate means:
A) Unyielding
B) Open-minded
C) Elderly
D) Oblong in shape
Vocab Practice: Obdurate
June 25, 2014 by
Cool Word Challenge: Hyperbole and Obdurate
June 20, 2014 by
Cool Word Challenge: Just for fun, come up with one sentence that uses both of the cool vocabulary words that you learned this week.
Here are the words again:
Hyperbole: Obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Obdurate: Stubbornly refusing to change one’s thinking; unyielding.
Submit your sentence below. The most creative ones [Read more…]
A Fight Against Obdurate Opposition…
June 19, 2014 by
As a young man, Frederick Douglass found inspiration in an unlikely place: Ireland. A writer, orator and abolitionist, Douglass traveled to the country in 1845 to gain overseas support for his campaign to end of slavery in America.
At the time, many Americans remained obdurate (see definition and hear pronunciation [Read more…]
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