recalcitrant

Today’s word of the moment is Recalcitrant.

According to Dictionary.com (our always loyal friend), Recalcitrant is something like this:

\rih-KAL-sih-truhnt\ , adjective;

1. Stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.

If they lingered too long, Clarice hurried them along in the same annoyed way she rushed recalcitrant goats through the gate.

- Kaye Gibbons, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

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I’ve been challenged by a good friend to combine my love of words, phonetics, and typography. I am going to start taking a word of the day from around the internets, and translating it into a “visual” work of art. Ok, work of art might be stretching it, but I’m trying. I hope it will spark conversation, or at least help my vocabulary.
They are words.. for the moment. So I call them “word of the moment”. Creative… I know.
Here is yesterday’s word of the day from Dictionary.com.
PERSEVERATE