Inveteracy - Inveterate character or condition
Inveterate - Firmly established by age; deep-rooted; ineradicable.
Invidious - Tending to excite odium, ill will, or envy; likely to give offense; esp. unjustly discriminating.
Courtesy of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition.
G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass., U. S. A. 1942
(presented to the author by the Buffalo Evening News at the National Spelling Bee, 1942)
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