Peter Sokolowski
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That's because when quid pro quo, which is New Latin for something for something, was first used as a phrase in English, it appeared especially in situations where one medicine was substituted for another, whether intentionally and sometimes fraudulently or accidentally.
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The meaning of the phrase was quickly extended, however, and within several decades it was being used for more general equivalent exchanges, and as a noun for the act of substituting, or the substituted thing itself.
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By the mid sixteen hundreds, the noun could be used for a bargain made between two parties involving the giving of one thing in return for another.
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For example, I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine.
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Although such bargains are not inherently illegal, this sense of quid pro quo often appears today in legal contexts where the giving and taking is less than completely lawful.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day podcast for july seventeenth.
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Today's word is obdurate, spelled O B D U R A T E.
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Obdurate is an adjective.
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It's a formal word that means resistant to persuasion.
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It's also usually used to describe someone who is not willing to change their methods or opinions or something that is not easily altered.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Even great careers must end sometime, and as often as not against obdurate wills.
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When trying to persuade someone who has an obdurate disposition, you may end up feeling rather dour about your ability to change their mind.
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To endure such encounters in the future, you may find that you need to be more durable and not let the person's mulishness get you down.
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Maybe you will find such situations less stressful if you can face them knowing that the words obdurate, dour, endure, and durable are etymological kissing cousins, all traced back to the Latin adjective durus, which means hard.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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