inveigle

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The Word of the Day for November 25 is:

inveigle   \in-VAY-gul\   verb
    *1 : to win over by wiles : entice
     2 : to acquire by ingenuity or flattery : wangle

Example sentence: 
     Not wanting to attend the gallery opening by herself, Alice tried to 
inveigle Glen into accompanying her.

Did you know?
     "Inveigle," a word that dates from the 16th century, refers to the act of 
using clever talk, trickery, or flattery to either persuade somebody to do 
something or to obtain something through a similar method. What could such a 
word possibly have to do with blindness? "Inveigle" came to English from the 
Anglo-French verb "enveegler," which means "to blind or hoodwink someone," from 
the adjective "enveugle," meaning "blind." "Enveugle" derives from the Medieval 
Latin "ab oculis," a phrase which literally translates to "lacking eyes." You 
might say that a person who is inveigled to do or give up something is too 
"blinded" by someone's words to know that he or she is being tricked.

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