vocabulary

Vocabulary Log February 16, 2010

-- Isaiah Berlin, //The Sense of Reality// ||
 * Word & pronunciation || ==** Inexorable ** \ in-EK-sur-uh-bul; in-EKS-ruh-bul\ == ||
 * Definition || cruel, pitiless ||
 * Part of Speech || adjective ||
 * Synonym || [|adamant], adamantine, [|bound], bound and determined, [|compulsory], dead set on, dogged, [|hard], [|harsh], hell bent on, immobile, immovable, [|implacable], ineluctable, [|inescapable], [|inflexible], ironclad, like death and taxes, locked in, mean business, [|merciless], [|necessary], no going back, [|obdurate], [|obstinate], [|relentless], remorseless, [|resolute], [|rigid], set in stone, [|severe], single-minded, [|stubborn], unappeasable, unbending, [|uncompromising], unmovable, [|unrelenting], [|unyielding] ||
 * Antonym || [|flexible], [|lenient], [|merciful], [|remorseful], [|yielding] ||
 * Used in a sentence || . . .such notions as the 'logic of the facts', or the 'march of history', which, like the laws of nature (with which they are partly identified), are thought of as, in some sense, '**inexorable**', likely to take their course whatever human beings may wish or pray for, an inevitable process to which individuals must adjust themselves.