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Word of the Day for Monday, February 14, 2011inveigle \in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-\, transitive verb: 1. To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. Deep Blue had tried to inveigle Kasparov into grabbing several pawn offers, but the champion was not fooled. He used to tell one about Kevin Moran ringing him up pretending to be a French radio journalist and inveigling Cas, new in France, into parlaying his three words of French into an interview. Once a soft touch for these ragged moralists who inveigled her into sparing them her change, Agnes began to cross the road, begging for some change in her circumstances. In fact, he spent the entire time in the car park, waiting for eye witnesses from whom to inveigle quotes he could use as his own. Inveigle comes from Anglo-French enveogler, from Old French aveugler, "to blind, to lead astray as if blind," from aveugle, "blind," from Medieval Latin ab oculis, "without eyes." | |||||||||
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  When you ask someone to be your "Valentine," what exactly does it mean?One would think that such a popular occasion as Valentine's Day would have a clear history of the word that defines it. Since Valentine is a name, the question is not what it means, but to whom does it refer, and what did Mr. Valentine do to deserve for you to ask your beloved to... | |||||||||
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