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Word of the Day for Monday August 16, 2004 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 into my column, just to see if the pervicacious editors will weed them out. --Michael Hawley, "Things That Matter: Waiting for Linguistic Viagra," [1]Technology Review, June, 2001

One of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of. --Samuel Richardson, [2]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 its pervading, pervicacious and pernicious meanderings. --[3]New York Law Journal, 1973 _________________________________________________________ Pervicacious is from Latin pervicax, pervicac-, "stubborn,
point, maintain ones opinion," from per-, "through,\ thoroughly" + vincere, "to conquer, prevail against" + the\ suffix -ious, "characterized by, full of."\\References\\ 1.