entice
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of entice
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
“I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.”
“Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.”
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Etymology
From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin *intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō (“firebrand (tool)”), from Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).
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