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entices

verb as in allure; persuade

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That said, TV shows provide food for the imagination and that entices your fixation to the screen.

India sends its scholars to the States for an education, then entices them back to work.

But for our purposes, they serve as evidence that, as three new books remind us, celebrity confounds as often as it entices.

A firm adherent of the idea that sugar entices flies where vinegar will not, Miss Cathby applied the sugar.

During the Mother's absence, the Gipsy comes in, entices a child away, and hides her.

He always carries a pocketful of corn, and day by day entices the birds further and further away.

Nobody shoots over it, so that entices the animals; but Prince Ananda has a roomy machan there with an electric light in it.

Occasionally the splashing of a hooked fish on the surface entices an alligator from his lair in expectation of a fishy morsel.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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