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01-10-2008, 08:00 PM
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"Recalcitrant" ???? Very nice.
re·cal·ci·trant Pronunciation: \-trənt\ Function: adjective Etymology: Late Latin recalcitrant-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel Date: 1843 1: obstinately defiant of authority or restraint 2 a: difficult to manage or operate b: not responsive to treatment c: resistant <this subject is recalcitrant both to observation and to experiment — G. G. Simpson 
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