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Word for the Day - INVEIGLE
www.dictionary.com ^ | 06-23-2017 | Red Badger

Posted on 06/23/2017 6:15:29 AM PDT by Red Badger

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

INVEIGLE

Verb (used with object), inveigled, inveigling.

1. to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.

2. to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods (usually followed by from or away): to inveigle a theater pass from a person.

Synonyms 1. induce, beguile, persuade. 2. wheedle.

ORIGIN:

1485-95; variant of envegle < Anglo-French enveogler, equivalent to en- en-1+ Old French (a)vogler to blind, derivative of avogle blind < Vulgar Latin *aboculus eyeless, adj. derivative of phrase *ab oculīs without eyes. See ab-, ocular

Related forms:

inveiglement, noun inveigler, noun uninveigled, adjective


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KEYWORDS: inveigle
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To: Red Badger

Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate.

The Truth is Out There...


21 posted on 06/23/2017 8:04:53 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: Red Badger; T-Bone Texan
Word for the day haiku:

Cruz, Lee, Paul, Johnson -
Trump must inveigle their “yea”.
The art of the deal!

22 posted on 06/23/2017 8:39:35 AM PDT by SFConservative
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To: SFConservative

It may all be a smoke screen.......Excellent! A+++!.............


23 posted on 06/23/2017 8:43:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: NeoCaveman

They were Beagles.....................

24 posted on 06/23/2017 8:45:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: left that other site

Thanks. Very nice of you to say so.


25 posted on 06/23/2017 11:25:03 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I enjoy vodka, caviar, and salads with Russian dressing. Investigate me.)
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To: Red Badger

Well, this is a problem, because while today’s republican leaders “claim” they want to inveagle the flag and the national bird into their political tent, but the Demoncrats, the RINO’s and their GROPE Elites are working very very hard to exveagle them out and away of every part of life.


26 posted on 06/23/2017 11:39:34 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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