intransitive verb. To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward. synonym: lure.

intransitive verb. To be inviting or attractive to.

intransitive verb. To provoke or to risk provoking.

intransitive verb. To cause to be strongly disposed.

intransitive verb. To be attractive or inviting.

noun. An attempt.

To put to trial; try; test; put to the test.

To entice; attract; allure; invite; induce; incline; dispose; incite.

To incite or entice to evil; entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage as the inducement; seduce.

To provoke; defy; act presumptuously toward.

To attempt; endeavor to do, accomplish, or reach; venture on.

Synonyms and To lure, inveigle, decoy, bait, bribe.

transitive verb. To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

transitive verb. To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.

transitive verb. To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

transitive verb. To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

verb. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

verb. To attract; to allure.

verb. To provoke something; to court.

verb. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting

verb. dispose or incline or entice to

verb. induce into action by using one's charm

verb. try presumptuously

verb. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

verb. try to seduce

"16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind."

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abundant  alluring  appetizing  attractive  compel  

allure  allure  appeal  attempt  attract  

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