To “inure” (in-YOOR) - from the Latin for “trouble, pains, exertion” - is to accustom to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient.

Example, as used by Allen Barra in Inventing Wyatt Earp): “They were a hard-driven, hardworking crowd inured to the hardest living, and they found their recreation in hard drinking and hard fighting.”

[Ed. Note: Become a more persuasive writer and speaker ... build your self-confidence and intellect ... increase your attractiveness to others ... just by spending 10 VERY enjoyable minutes a day with ETR's new Words to the Wise CD Library.]

Copyright ETR, LLC, 2008