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honied
[huhn-eed] 
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cower
[kou-er]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hide, hover in fear |
| Synonyms: | apple-polish, blench, bootlick, brownnose, cringe, crouch, draw back, fawn, flinch, grovel, honey*, kowtow, quail, recoil, shrink, skulk, sneak, toady, tremble, truckle, wince |
| Antonyms: | come out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sweeten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add sugar |
| Synonyms: | add sweetening, candy, candy-coat, honey, make sweet, make toothsome, mull, sugar, sugar-coat |
| Antonyms: | salt, sour |
| Main Entry: | tempt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lure, entice |
| Synonyms: | allure, appeal to, attract, bait, butter up, captivate, charm, coax, court, dare, decoy, draw, draw out, entrap, fascinate, honey*, hook*, incite, induce, influence, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, invite, lead on, make mouth water, motivate, mousetrap, move, oil, persuade, play up to, promote, provoke, risk, rouse, seduce, solicit, stimulate, tantalize, test, train, try, turn one's head, wheedle, whet, woo* |
| Antonyms: | discourage, repulse, turn off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dulcify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pacify |
| Synonyms: | allay, appease, assuage, calm, conciliate, curb, dulcorate, gentle, honey, mollify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, reconcile, soften, soothe, sugar, sweeten |
| Main Entry: | sweet-talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flatter |
| Synonyms: | adulate, beslaver, blandish, bootlick, brownnose, build up*, butter up, cajole, cater to, charm, con, court, fawn*, get next to, glorify, grovel, honey, humor, inveigle, jolly, lay it on thick, massage, oil, overpraise, play up to, praise, rub the right way, salve, sell, slaver, snow*, soft-soap, soften*, spread it on, stroke, suck up to, sweeten up, toady, wheedle, work on, work over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sweet-talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coax |
| Synonyms: | allure, argue into, arm-twist, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up, cajole, come on, con, decoy, entice, flatter, get*, honey, hook*, importune, induce, influence, inveigle, jawbone, lure, pester, plague, press, prevail upon, rope in, soft-soap, soothe, talk into, tease, tempt, urge, wangle, wheedle, work on, worm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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