Pronounced: SWIH-vuht, noun
Notes: A new word to me
Yesterday’s word
The word intractable means “not easily handled, managed, or controlled”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s
Background / Comments
I thought that this word meant something like “stubborn”. Our word came from the Latin word tractare (to handle), which came from trahere (draw).
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