hidebound
Day 19Level 3HIED-bownd
inflexible
excessively rigid; dry and stiff
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms:
conservative, inflexible
Example Sentence:
The director had the credibility necessary to persuade a hidebound institution to change quickly.
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uh-SKRAHYB
to assign to a source
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AT-uh-viz-uhm
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic in an organism after absence in several generations
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AA-troh-fee
wither from disuse, to waste away
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BOH-guhs
counterfeit
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person who travels regularly
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kuhn-TOO-zhuhn
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