Acclimatised.

from The Great Divorce

'I prefer it up here,' said I.

'Well, I don't see what all the talk is about,' said the Hard-Bitten Ghost. 'It's as good as any other park to look at, and darned uncomfortable.'

'There seems to be some idea that if one stays here one would get--well, solider--grow acclimatised.'

'I know all about that,' said the Ghost. 'Same old lie. People have been telling me that sort of thing all my life. They told me in the nursery that if I were good I'd be happy. And they told me at school that Latin would get easier as I went on. After I'd been married a month some fool was telling me there were always difficulties at first, but with Tact and Patience I'd soon "settle down" and like it! And all through two wars what didn't they say about the good time coming if only I'd be a brave boy and go on being shot at? Of course they'll play the old game here if anyone's fool enough to listen.' (Lewis 53-54)

I picked out this part because it highlights the concept I was talking about in the previous post but, a bit more fun, I was simply struck by the word acclimatised here. It made me pause, and I spent several minutes trying to pronounce it correctly--with and without a British accent--just to feel it on my tongue. I haven't seen the word used outside of more specific or sterile settings, but I like it here because I think this diction enhances the narrator's characterization--his personality and slightly-detached, slightly-proper role of clinical observer rather than Heaven-Hell participant.