αἱρεῖσθαι

From LSJ

ἐγὼ δ' ἀνάγκῃ προύμαθον στέργειν κακά → I have been slowly schooled by necessity to endure misery

Source

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also αἱρέω): choose, elect, select, adopt a course of action, elect to office, pick out