🇬🇧🇪🇸 perseverance - perserverancia : English Lesson
noun
Meaning of "perseverance" ("perserverancia"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.
Perseverance means you keep trying and don’t give up, even when something is very hard, takes a long time, or you feel like quitting—you just keep going, step by step, until you get better or finish.
Thanks to perseverance, Emma finally rode her bike without training wheels—and only crashed into five bushes.
The cat used amazing perseverance to knock every single object off the table, one paw swipe at a time.
It takes perseverance to train our dog, because he thinks “sit” means “spin around and lick everyone’s toes.”
With pure perseverance, I kept reading the same page of my book until I stopped daydreaming about pizza.
Sophie showed perseverance by practicing her cartwheel until it stopped looking like a confused falling potato.
She held the broken oar, and perseverance steadied her hands. Perseverance drove her back to the workshop each dawn. Perseverance let her patch holes, sand edges, tie knots. Each knot was perseverance. When waves tipped the boat she tried again. Her tired smile showed perseverance. On the final morning the tiny boat cut the blue and she cried.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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