Word to the Wise: Inveigle

To "inveigle" (in-VAY-gul) - from the Latin for "without eyes" - is to persuade by ingenuity or flattery.

Example (as used by Robert Byrne in The New York Times): "[The chess-playing computer] Deep Blue had tried to inveigle [Garry] Kasparov into grabbing several pawn offers, but the champion was not fooled."

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