Tuesday, September 29, 2009

49. My Two new words of the week...

dalliance

\DAL-ee-uhns, DAL-yuhns\ , noun:
1.
Frivolous spending of time; dawdling.
2.
Playful flirtation.

AND

inure

\in-YOOR\ , transitive verb:
1.
To make accustomed or used to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient; to harden; to habituate; as, "inured to drudgery and distress.
intransitive verb:
1.
To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.

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