balking

7 letters · adjective · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

adjective

stopping short and refusing to go on

Balking in a sentence

If there have not been the means to learn, if one knows nothing on a subject, to pretend or try to sympathize is more balking than to give it up.

Before this occurrence taught me the better way, I was quite prone, in dealing with a balking boy, to hold his mind upon the subject of balking.

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