tenacity
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General noun
The quality of being persistent and refusing to give up.
It took real tenacity to keep appealing the ruling for three long years.
Business noun
Firm determination to keep pursuing a deal or goal.
Closing that account took the kind of tenacity that shrugs off six months of silence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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