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Select the correctly spelled word meaning 'stubbornly resistant to authority'.

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SSC Selection Post 2025 Graduate Level Question Paper (29-Aug-2025) (Shift 1)
The correct answer is

Recalcitrant

The word meaning stubbornly uncooperative or resistant to authority is spelt r-e-c-a-l-c-i-t-r-a-n-t.

It comes from the Latin recalcitrare, "to kick back" (re- + calx, heel), so it is built as re + calci + trant.

Recalcerant loses the -it- syllable, Reccalcitrant wrongly doubles the c, and Ricalcitrant changes the prefix re- to ri-.

Hence, the answer is Recalcitrant.

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