Obstinate ( page 256 ).
Questions.
1. How does headstrong differ from obstinate and stubborn? 2. How do obstinate and stubborn differ from each other? Which is commonly applied to the inferior animals and to inanimate things? 3. What is the meaning of refractory? How does it differ from stubborn? Which word is applied to metals, and in what sense? 4. What is the meaning of obdurate? contumacious? pertinacious? 5. What words do we apply to the unyielding character or conduct that we approve?
Examples.
Is it in heav'n a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender, or too —— a heart,
To act a Lover's or a Roman's part?
"I shall talk of what I like," she said wilfully, clasping her hands round her knees with the gesture of an —— child.