Brrr! When skiers step outside during particularly frigid days of winter, the chill often hits them right in the face.

Even with their warm boots and thick layers of clothing, skiers sometimes shiver in the biting cold, especially as they ascend higher and higher up the mountain.

By the time the chairlift has ferried them to the top of the mountain, however, their attention begins to shift to the glittering, fresh snow that awaits them.

Once they start making their way down the slopes, they’ve usually become so inured (see definition and hear pronunciation below) to the cold that they hardly notice it at all!

Cool word vocabulary question of the day: What’s something to which you’ve become inured?

Inure: To become accustomed to something unpleasant over a period of time so that you are no longer bothered or upset by it.

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