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Word For The Day, Monday, November 6, 2006 - inveterate
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | November 6, 2006 | secret garden

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 Threads:

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!


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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Excellent! A+


41 posted on 11/06/2006 8:32:52 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

But it is helping to invigorate the base. The Republican base. A for you. I'm off to the orthodontist, kiddos! Back soon!


42 posted on 11/06/2006 8:34:54 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: NicknamedBob

I like your imagination...


43 posted on 11/06/2006 8:37:36 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Gabz

We long-suffering Marylanders are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to slip a little Steele in betwixt the anti-American rock-ribs in Congress.


44 posted on 11/06/2006 8:43:16 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If the Supreme Court has "Judges for Life," why is there any question about Roe vs Wade?)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
"I like your imagination..."

"It entertains me constantly." -- Ebeneezer Scrooge

45 posted on 11/06/2006 8:45:20 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If the Supreme Court has "Judges for Life," why is there any question about Roe vs Wade?)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Sorry, I misquoted. Here's the original ...

"It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly." -- Ebeneezer Scrooge

... but my imagination does entertain me. Constantly.


46 posted on 11/06/2006 8:55:52 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If the Supreme Court has "Judges for Life," why is there any question about Roe vs Wade?)
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To: secret garden; xsmommy; Gabz; VRWCmember; Argh
I'm off to the orthodontist, kiddos! Back soon!
er, uhm. yes. Go do that.

(Robt pages the dentist, wondering what new holes and sensations he will find (and create!) whilst exploring secret's garden(s).....
47 posted on 11/06/2006 9:00:43 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: VRWCmember

!


48 posted on 11/06/2006 9:01:44 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: NicknamedBob

Quoting Scrooge, eh?

Sounds like a dangerous ploy to me...


49 posted on 11/06/2006 9:05:34 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: secret garden

Putting the Word of the Day in the Title of the thread should be inveterate.


50 posted on 11/06/2006 9:07:04 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA)
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To: secret garden
I had a neighbor who rarely went out in public that was very adamant that hanging upside down helped is back, I guess that makes him a introverted inveterate inverted vibrate.
51 posted on 11/06/2006 9:09:32 AM PST by ThomasThomas ( _/|\_)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
"Quoting Scrooge, eh? Sounds like a dangerous ploy to me..."

You'd prefer that I quote Tiny Tim? *Clears throat*

52 posted on 11/06/2006 9:15:53 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If the Supreme Court has "Judges for Life," why is there any question about Roe vs Wade?)
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To: NicknamedBob

I'm pulling for you folks, I really am.

Cardin was still in the state legislature when I was in radio on the Shore.......man I hated having to deal with him. He was always pleasant to me, but trying to get a straight answer to a simple question was impossible with him.

From Pocomoke to Ocean City on Friday I did not see 1 single solitary sign for Cardin. Lots and lots for Steele and Ehrlich, but none for Cardin and only 1 for O'Malley.


53 posted on 11/06/2006 9:19:31 AM PST by Gabz
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To: NicknamedBob
"It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly." -- Ebeneezer Scrooge

Advice the nanny-statists should take to heart..........

54 posted on 11/06/2006 9:21:18 AM PST by Gabz
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To: NicknamedBob

God bless us, one and all....


55 posted on 11/06/2006 9:21:54 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices. The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.

The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.
"... the Genius of the Weather" -- I like the sound of that! I wonder if I could get a job somewhere ...
56 posted on 11/06/2006 9:28:31 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If the Supreme Court has "Judges for Life," why is there any question about Roe vs Wade?)
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To: NicknamedBob

I always check the news here before the TV. A for you!


57 posted on 11/06/2006 10:08:25 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: VRWCmember

Bravo! A++!


58 posted on 11/06/2006 10:09:23 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

He is known, by others in this area, as Saint Peyton. A for you!


59 posted on 11/06/2006 10:10:16 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Now you've got me jonesing for the Duke's version of The Nutcracker. A for you!


60 posted on 11/06/2006 10:11:23 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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