Peter Sokolowski
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Today's word is Invegal, also sometimes pronounced Invegal and spelled I N V E I G L E Invegal is a verb.
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To inveigle someone is to persuade them in a clever or deceptive way to do something.
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Inveigle can also mean to get something in a clever or deceptive way.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from The New Yorker by Julian Lucas.
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His wayward cousin Freddy constantly invigles him into more serious mischief.
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It's true that you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you might find you can inveigle someone else into getting it for you.
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Inveigle, a word that dates from the sixteenth century, is used in situations where someone uses clever talk, trickery, or flattery either to persuade somebody to do something or to obtain something.
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If you have the morning munchies, for example, but get
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No satisfaction from cold cereal, you might invigel a bagel by complimenting a barista, say, or invigle a barista into giving you a bagel.
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Failed to plan thoroughly for your camping trip?
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It's not inveigling to demand gimme shelter or you gotta move to someone with a tent you'd like to steal like a thief in the night.
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Inveigling involves subtle acts of persuasion and sometimes outright trickery.
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The distinction makes sense given that inveigle comes from the Anglo French verb enveigle, meaning to hoodwink.
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Its ultimate source is the medieval Latin verb.
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Ab oculus
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meaning literally lacking eyes.
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Today's word is Kluge, also pronounced kludge, and spelled K-L-U-D-G-E.
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