Posted on 11/06/2006 4:22:29 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
inveterate \in-VET-uhr-it\, adjective
1. Firmly established by long persistence; deep-rooted; of long standing.
2. Fixed in habit by long persistence; confirmed; habitual.
Example sentence:
I was an inveterate museum-goer from the age of fourteen, when I'd take the trolley to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after school and wander the halls of Greek antiquities.
-- Jane Alexander, Command Performance
Etymology:
Inveterate is from the past participle of Latin inveterari, "to grow old, to endure," from in- + vetus, veter-, "old." It is related to veteran, "one who is long experienced in some activity or capacity; an old soldier of long service; one who has served in the armed forces." The noun form is inveteracy or inveterateness.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
Morning all
Wow, you're early!
Morning!
Coffee drinking and checking FR threads and pings are inveterate behaviors for many of us.
That's an understatement!!!!
Thank you for my ribbon - time to take the girls to school, be back in a bit!
A+! Most likely, he'll call all of us in Tennessee racists because we didn't vote for the liberal from the family of criminals.
Inveterate, heck, I can live without coffee, but not FR.
Morning!
Those inveterate negative thinkers
The 'rats have made their own bed
No matter what they say they are
They're always colored red
Red as in socialist thinking
With them in charge as the elite-
Just remember Jimmuh Carter and don't
Even let them get a repeat
Of gas lines, inflation and taxes
We can't give them a pass-
Vote to keep them out even if
You've got to crawl over broken glass
It is 62 and raining off and on, so I'd better be on my way to work-back later...
A+, well done!
Thank you! I almost forgot to pack a lunch, and can't find my umbrella...
I understand the feeling;)
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