English Word of the Day: TENACIOUS

Describing someone as tenacious means they are very persistent. They are very determined to reach their goal, and they are strong and brave in continuing to take action towards that goal. They don’t get distracted, they don’t doubt themselves, they don’t stop pursuing their objective.

Let’s say there’s a mountain climber who suffered a serious injury, but she worked very hard in her physical therapy and she exercised and trained and eventually got back to full health, and continued climbing mountains. You could describe her as tenacious.

Or maybe one country took over another country and tried to impose a new religion on the people, but the people continued and preserved their original religion despite the pressure to change. They were tenacious because they were determined and persistent.

A lot of small children can be described as tenacious – imagine a little boy who always wants to climb on top of the kitchen table, his mother takes him down and tells him a hundred times not to do that, but he keeps doing it – he is tenacious, persistent in pursuing his goal.

Who is someone you know that you could describe as tenacious? It could be someone you know personally, or maybe an athlete, and artist, or a celebrity who has this characteristic of strong determination and persistence. Let’s put this word into practice.

That’s all for today – tune in tomorrow for our final adjective before we move on to adverbs next week. Bye bye!

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Our prophet Mohammad peace be up on him is really tenacious.

[榎木康朗]

The Giants, which are a Japanese baseball team, were so tenacious in today's game that they were able to catch up with their opponents.

[liisomofficial]

Palestinians are really tenacious 🇵🇸❤
#FreePalestine

[SureshKumar-whwf]

I didn't give up my confidence for my learning English. this tenacious mindset will give great future one day.

[Shabnam]

I would say former President, Trump, is tenacious in terms of getting the job done and being persistent.

[discoverygarden]

He is tenacious in getting his project done.

[victoriavasilieva]

Thank You for this knowledge. With word "Tenacious" i have accociate a rock-band '"Tenacious D". Now i know what it's mean. Thanks!

[omidullahsediqi]

Being tenacious will guide you to achieve your goal.

[ahmedabdallah]

Let's find something that rhymes with this word, hm... "Tunisians are tenacious, aren't they?;)

[yurydorozhko]

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[hwangdalmi]

The former leader of iKON, Kim Hanbin aka BI is tenacious.

[discoverygarden]

Who is someone you know that is tenacious? My dad was tenacious in achieving his goal as businessman.

[sampatpratap]

We need to be tenacious to get a government job nowadays for the cut throat competition.

[irfankhan-ibnw]

We need to be tenacious to achieve our goals

[discoverygarden]

My son is tenacious in getting us to buy him new toys.

[nacciomart]

Hi Shayna, how are you doing?
I consider myself a tenacious person, I will speak like a native speaker, no matter what, no matter how, I will get to the top.
Thanks Shayna.

[anpcpro]

Thanks, Shayna. You are right, people might be tenacious when they defend their religion. May God protect us. ☦️ Let us pray.

"For you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety" Psalm 4 📖

[nouredineelfounini]

Thank you so much. Persistent, Sit in his way, stubborn, Ernest, Driven.
First 3 from your former lessons.have a good day

[diegos.vargas]

I think see Espresso English every day make me more tenacious in my study of the english lenguage, with discipline and constancy.

[veenanarwani]

You are tenacious in pursuing your goal of teaching students. you must have been tenacious in reaching your academic goals because a tenacious student can further become a tenacious teacher.
Saints always have tenacious attitude towards their spiritual goals. India's freedom fighters were tenaciously pursuing the goal of freedom by initiating and organising various movements across the country with the help of community.