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Vocabulary: some examples on Inveterate?



 
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Vocabulary: some examples on Inveterate? Tue Apr 01, 2008 14:46 pm  Vocabulary: some examples on Inveterate?
 

HI ,

Invetrate: we can say like this an inveterate smoker and a inveterate drunker

Could you please give me some more examples on Inveterate?

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Vocabulary: some examples on Inveterate? Tue Apr 01, 2008 14:50 pm  Vocabulary: some examples on Inveterate?
 

Hi,

The second one would be 'an inveterate drunkard'. It has the sense of describing a long lasting habit as in: inveterate traveller/football fan/practical joker/pessimist/optimist.

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