| VERB | communication | entice, lure, tempt | provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion |
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| Sounds | ihntay's | |
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| Rhymes | advice ... vise: 29 rhymes with ays... | |
| Meaning | Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something | |
| Model | They entice him to write the letter | |
| Synonyms | lure, tempt | |
| Narrower | bait | Lure, entice, or entrap with bait |
| call | Lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal | |
| decoy | Lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy | |
| hook, snare | entice and trap | |
| lead on | entice or induce especially when unwise or mistaken / mistaken | |
| seduce | Lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct | |
| stool | Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl | |
| tweedle | entice through the use of music | |
| Broader | provoke, stimulate | Provide the needed stimulus for |
| Spanish | incitar, tentar | |
| Catalan | incitar, seduir, temptar | |
| Nouns | enticement | the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire |
| enticement | qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | |
| enticement | something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | |
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