GRE Word List
WHEEDLE
to influence or entice by soft words or flattery
The meaning of the word wheedle is to influence or entice by soft words or flattery.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
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| charlatan | quack |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |