Today's Word "Inure"
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inure \i-NYUR\ (verb) - To habituate someone to something undesirable, especially after they have endured it for a long time.
"Regina's TV dinners were a far cry from her mother's creative cuisine but after a while she became inured to them"
Middle English enuren, from en- + ure "use, custom," from Middle French uevre "work, practice" which in Modern French is oeuvre "(a) work." The French word devolved from Latin opera "work." The same stem, *op- turns up in "opulent" and "copious" (co+op).