Word to the Wise: Pervicacious

"Pervicacious" (pur-vih-KAY-shus) means stubborn or obstinate – refusing to change your ideas or behavior. The word is from the Latin for "to maintain one’s opinion."

Example (as used in the New York Law Journal): "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."

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