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When a member of a royal family accedes to the throne, they become ruler.
If you acquiesce to something, you allow it to happen by doing what someone wants without putting up a struggle or voicing your own concerns.
If your behavior or manner is altruistic, you show you care more about other people and their interests than you care about yourself.
If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in multiple ways.
When you capitulate, you accept or agree to do something after having resisted doing so for a long time.
Someone cedes land or power to someone else by giving it to them, often because of political or military pressure.
If you feel a compulsion to do something, you feel like you must do it.
Someone who is dour is serious, stubborn, and unfriendly; they can also be gloomy.
When people equivocate, they avoid making a clear statement; they are deliberately vague in order to avoid giving a direct answer to a question.
Something that is immutable is always the same and cannot be changed.
If someone is imperturbable, they are always calm and not easily upset or disturbed by any situation, even dangerous ones.
If someone is implacable, they very stubbornly react to situations or the opinions of others because of strong feelings that make them unwilling to change their mind.
Something that is incessant continues on for a long time without stopping.
Someone who is incorrigible has bad habits or does bad things and is unlikely to ever change; this word is often used in a humorous way.
Something that is ineluctable is impossible to avoid or escape, however much you try.
Something that is inevitable will certainly occur because it cannot be avoided.
An intransigent person is stubborn; thus, they refuse to change their ideas or behavior, often in a way that seems unreasonable.
Two irreconcilable opinions or points of view are so opposed to each other that it is not possible to accept both of them or reach a settlement between them.
Someone who is irresolute is unable to decide what to do.
When an irreversible act is done, it cannot be undone or fixed in any way.
An irrevocable action or decision is impossible to change, reverse, or stop.
A juggernaut is a very powerful force, organization, or group whose influence cannot be stopped; its strength and power can overwhelm or crush any competition or anything else that stands in its way.
An organization or system that is a monolith is extremely large; additionally, it is unwilling or very slow to change or adopt something new.
Someone who is obdurate is stubborn, unreasonable, or uncontrollable; hence, they simply refuse to change their behavior, actions, or beliefs to fit any situation whatsoever.
An obstinate person refuses to change their mind, even when other people think they are being highly unreasonable.
If an object oscillates, it moves repeatedly from one point to another and then back again; if you oscillate between two moods or attitudes, you keep changing from one to the other.
A reprieve is a temporary relief from or cancellation of a punishment; it can also be a relief from something, such as pain or trouble of some kind.
Stasis is a state of little change over a long period of time, or a condition of inactivity caused by an equal balance of opposing forces.
If you are steadfast, you have a firm belief in your actions or opinions and refuse to give up or change them because you are certain that you are doing the right thing.
If you are unrelenting in your desire to do something, you stop at nothing until you’ve done it.
A vagary is an unpredictable or unexpected change in action or behavior.
Vicissitudes can be unexpected or simply normal changes and variations that happen during the course of people’s lives.
If you waver, you cannot decide between two things because you have serious doubts about which choice is better.
Adj.
inexorable
in-EK-ser-uh-buhl
Context
Once Dash Milton confirmed the production of thousands of vehicles, the manufacturing process would be inexorable or unstoppable. Mr. Milton, CEO of Motors, Inc., understood that once the inexorable process of production had begun it simply could not be halted. Hopefully the process of selling all those cars would also be inexorable or unable to be ended!
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What does it mean when something is inexorable?
It could be a disaster if a mistake is not corrected.
It is important to finish because others depend on it.
It cannot be halted once it has been set in motion.
Next? AdorableI Since my three sisters had already been married to various dukes and I was the next adorable daughter in line, it was inexorable that I would soon be married as well.
Examples
A bleak, darkly beautiful tale played out against the background of the First Age of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, _The Children of Húrin_ possesses the mythic resonance and grim sense of inexorable fate found in Greek tragedy.
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The Washington Post
As the unrivaled global superpower, America exports its culture on an unprecedented scale. . . . A main problem is that culture is no longer a protected species, but subject to the inexorable drive for free trade, says Joost Smiers, a political science professor at the Utrecht School of the Arts.
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The Christian Science Monitor
There had never been a no-hitter in the World Series, and there had not been a perfect game in the major leagues for 34 years. But, there was Larsen, going into the eighth. Jackie Robinson tried his best to slow down the inexorable pressure of fate when he stepped out of the box with two strikes and walked away to talk for a second with Gil Hodges.
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Sports Illustrated
Wagner wants to restrain what many see as an inexorable force: the transformation of Malibu’s end-of-the continent ruggedness into a gaudy version of Palm Beach. Malibu has struggled with this tension over identity for decades, in the meantime evolving into a strange mix of contradictions.
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Los Angeles Times
