| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The power or quality of attracting: allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, charisma, charm, draw, enchantment, enticement, fascination, glamour, magnetism, witchery. Informal : pull. See LIKE. 2. Something that attracts, especially with the promise of pleasure or reward: allurement, bait, come-on, enticement, inducement, inveiglement, invitation, seduction, temptation. See LIKE. 3. Something that leads one into a place or situation from which escape is difficult: bait, snare, trap. See LIKE, SAFETY. | | VERB: | 1. To direct or impel to oneself by some quality or action: allure, appeal, attract, draw, entice, magnetize, take. Informal : pull. See LIKE. 2. To beguile or draw into a wrong or foolish course of action: allure, entice, inveigle, seduce, tempt. Idioms: lead astray. See PERSUASION.
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