appeal
/əˈpiɫ/
nounan act of persuasion by saying that something is reasonable or fair to do
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1. Socialism in the wake of the Industrial Revolution appealed to many Americans.
2. Others appealed to the states for women's admission to the polls.
3. This spiritual side of his writing appealed to many readers.
4. None of this is appealing.
5. And his message certainly had appeal.
to appeal
/əˈpiɫ/
verbto attempt to persuade someone to do something by saying to them that it is reasonable or fair
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1. Socialism in the wake of the Industrial Revolution appealed to many Americans.
2. Others appealed to the states for women's admission to the polls.
3. This spiritual side of his writing appealed to many readers.
4. None of this is appealing.
5. And his message certainly had appeal.
to arbitrate
/ˈɑɹbəˌtɹeɪt/
verbto officially resolve a disagreement between people
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1. The state Supreme Court ultimately was asked to arbitrate a case that invalidated the plan that was enacted in 2011 as a partisan gerrymander.
2. We will come in and arbitrate any situation for you impartially and without bias because we don't care.
3. The Spartans refused to arbitrate.
4. That's a lot of what the financial system is about is about arbitrating that.
5. During its four month occupation, Varus used this base of operations to conduct building projects, arbitrate inter-tribal disputes in the Roman fashion, and begin planting the seeds of Roman rule in Greater Germany.
arbitration
/ˌɑɹbɪˈtɹeɪʃən/
nounthe process in which a person is officially appointed to act as a judge and settle an argument
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1. Arbitration needs to be relabeled.
2. Arbitration is a private system that takes fights behind closed doors away from a judge and jury.
3. Now, arbitration is often seen as a boogeyman within legal circles.
4. The key mechanisms within that approach are, firstly, arbitration.
5. Arbitration was never the objective.
arbitrator
/ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹeɪtɝ/
nounsomeone who is appointed to resolve a disagreement
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1. For example, some arbitrators may be biased towards the companies that give them cases.
2. Management takes their position, the union takes their position, the arbitrator has to pick one.
3. The arbitrator has to pick one.
4. Though closely related, the three work somewhat differently: Arbitrators hear and decide disputes.
5. Yeah, he's an arbitrator.
to argue
/ˈɑɹɡju/
verbto provide reasons when saying something is the case, particularly to persuade others that one is right
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1. Trump's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz himself once argued the opposite during the Clinton impeachment.
2. As historians and economists argue the criteria, adjustments due to inflation and the values of commodities and services.
3. Realistically, the man can argue three legal theories for a lawsuit.
4. Proponents of immunity would also argue logistical problems.
5. The loser of this round has to argue the next round with their feet in ice water.
to argue into
/ˈɑːɹɡjuː ˌɪntʊ/
verbto persuade someone to do something by providing them with reasons
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to argue out
/ˈɑːɹɡjuː ˈaʊt/
verbto persuade someone to not do something by providing reasons for them
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arm-twisting
/ˈɑːɹmtwˈɪstɪŋ/
nounthe act of forcing someone, sometimes even physically, to do something
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1. The PRESIDENT is going to LUNCH with HIM today and returning to US stomping grounds with the arm-twisting stage of the procedure.
to beat down
/bˈiːt dˈaʊn/
verbto persuade a person to lower the price of something particular
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1. Just beating down the sword.
2. The sun beats down!
3. We were beat down.
4. The sun beats down, a large fire burns near the waterline, and in that fire, lies the body of a man.
5. The rain is beating down in a heavy downpour.
blandishments
/ˈbɫændɪʃmənts/
nounnice things that are done for someone or said to them to persuade them to do something particular
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bribe
/ˈbɹaɪb/
nounan amount of money or something of value given to someone in order to persuade them to do something that is illegal
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1. Accepting bribes from Coursera.
2. - Thank you, sir. - Ooh, bribe money!
3. Bribe the bouncer.
4. Number five is bribes.
5. Bribes are the permissive parents version of threats.
to bribe
/ˈbɹaɪb/
verbto persuade someone to do something, often illegal, by giving them an amount of money or something of value
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1. Accepting bribes from Coursera.
2. - Thank you, sir. - Ooh, bribe money!
3. Bribe the bouncer.
4. Number five is bribes.
5. Bribes are the permissive parents version of threats.
to bring round
/bɹˈɪŋ ɹˈaʊnd/
verbto persuade someone to do something or agree to something
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1. Then you can bring round the bicycle.'
2. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging lamp.
3. He then ordered his horse to be brought round, and, after insisting on his wife and the three boys sitting down to dinner, rode off down the Ascot road with a groom.
to bring together
/bɹˈɪŋ təɡˈɛðɚ/
verbto make people become closer together or become friendlier, or to help them end their argument
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1. This conference has brought together an even broader range of people in today's audience.
2. Today's program will bring together even more people virtually.
3. JFK's nephew Stephen Kennedy Smith and historian Doug Brinkley bring together Kennedy's greatest speeches and essays and stories by political thinkers, writers, and artists.
4. Docking programs bring together the protein of interest with each compound.
5. We bring together each summer about 100 very talented students from around the world.
carrot
/ˈkæɹət/, /ˈkɛɹət/
nounsomething offered to someone as a means of persuasion
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1. Carrots Along with Vitamin C, carrots have a large amount of B-6, calcium, iron and magnesium.
2. Do carrots lower cholesterol?
3. Carrots will also lower your blood pressure.
4. Carrots definitely are in.
5. Carrots have two main types of antioxidants.
to coax
/ˈkoʊks/
verbto persuade by being kind and gentle
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1. She is coaxing this out of me.
2. Those coax cables are thinner than a human hair.
3. Just ran the cable right into the coax on the TV.
4. The hard part was simply coaxing the octopus out of its den.
5. That coaxing into it.
coaxing
/ˈkoʊksɪŋ/
adjectivepersuasive in a gentle manner
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1. Persuading him to run for mayor against the incumbent, Ed Koch, and then to face Rudy Giuliani, took some coaxing by Harlem’s Democratic power brokers.
2. June didn't need COAXING for her shot.
3. The scientists took the fruit back to their laboratory in Moscow and, with some gentle coaxing, were able to grow new plants which, in turn, flowered and produced new seeds.
coaxing
/ˈkoʊksɪŋ/
nounthe act of gently persuading someone
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1. Persuading him to run for mayor against the incumbent, Ed Koch, and then to face Rudy Giuliani, took some coaxing by Harlem’s Democratic power brokers.
2. June didn't need COAXING for her shot.
3. The scientists took the fruit back to their laboratory in Moscow and, with some gentle coaxing, were able to grow new plants which, in turn, flowered and produced new seeds.
to convince
/kənˈvɪns/
verbto make someone feel certain about the truth of something
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1. No one was convinced.
2. He convinced.
3. Convince seems, useful.
4. You convinced?
5. Yes or no, people convinced?
convincing
/kənˈvɪnsɪŋ/
adjectiveable to make someone believe that something is right or true
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1. But, the connection between autoimmunity and schizophrenia is pretty convincing.
2. Some AI art pieces are very convincing.
3. Jeremy's sincerity wasn't convincing.
4. None of them were very convincing.
5. Those guys are mad convincing.
cooling-off period
/kˈuːlɪŋˈɔf pˈiəɹɪəd/
nouna period during which two opposing sides try to come to an agreement before taking any serious action
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to dangle
/ˈdæŋɡəɫ/
verbto persuade someone to do something by offering them something pleasant
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1. Dangling from a skyscraper?
2. The string is just dangling.
3. - Mine's dangling.
4. Just dangling off.
5. Just dangling.
to dissuade
/dɪˈsweɪd/
verbto advise someone against something
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1. Those risks haven't dissuaded the companies that are currently developing studies and testing prototypes.
2. To dissuade people from buying RimWorld?
3. Do not be dissuaded.
4. Don't dissuade sales with an outrageous price.
5. Nothing's wife, however, dissuaded him from going.
to encourage
/ɛnˈkɝɪdʒ/, /ɪnˈkɝədʒ/
verbto persuade a person to do something by making them think it is good for them or by making it easier
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1. Its main goal is to teach literacy and encourage kids to learn how to spell.
2. Alfred’s tutors encouraged his passion for chemistry and literature.
3. Jerry's work in 1989 on IP international trade opportunities and risk of a gap connection encouraged my curiosity.
4. These new markets encouraged bulk manufacture.
5. Encouraging telecommuting?
to entice
/ɪnˈtaɪs/
verbto persuade someone or something to do something specific, often by offering them what they desire
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1. The glimmer of a promise of power, wealth, servants, and spies can entice any player's dark side.
2. The water itself should be enticing.
3. It entices some rebels to ground level.
4. It entices some rebels to ground level.
5. A glowing lure entices victims into this dragonfish's terrifying teeth.
to exhort
/ɪɡˈzɔɹt/
verbto work very hard at persuading someone into doing something
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1. One of Mr. Crumpling's daughters exhorted and shouted praises until her strength gave way and she fell to the ground in a dead faint.
2. You exhorted everybody who's listening to create factions and precipitating events.
3. And he exhorted them to pursue a life of creativity and passion, and this sort of became the initial Last Lecture.
4. As he made his way, Julian continuously exhorted the units he passed to greater courage, inspiring them with his oration.
5. Now, her daughter pounds the pulpit every Sunday at her church in Jefferson City, Missouri, exhorting her parishioners to vote.
exhortation
/ˌɛɡˌzɔɹˈteɪʃən/
nounthe action or process of trying very hard to persuade someone to do something
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1. At the end of the book, near the end of the book, is a really interesting exhortation.
2. And Leviticus 19 contains a similar exhortation not to wrong a stranger who resides with you, but "love him as yourself for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
3. Let me just end with an exhortation.
4. We're not engaging in exhortation and generational flattery.
5. It's surely significant that the dietary laws are followed by a powerful exhortation to be holy in imitation of God, Leviticus 11:43-45.
fence-mending
/fˈɛnsmˈɛndɪŋ/
nounthe act of trying to help opposing sides come to an agreement
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to get
/ˈɡɛt/, /ˈɡɪt/
verbto convince someone to do something by giving them good reasons to do it
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1. Have you got any hobbies?’
2. My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
3. - You get a whole bunch of clothes in that washing machine!
4. We just got a really good photographer.
5. It got a laugh.
to get around
/ɡɛt ɐɹˈaʊnd/
verbto persuade someone to do what one wants, often by doing things they like
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1. Turtles really get around!
2. The word got around.
3. Just getting around.
4. Riders with disabilities, seniors, and the blind can get around more easily.
5. That truck gets around.
to get out
/ɡɛt ˈaʊt/
verbto get something through using force
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1. Get out.
2. - Get out!
3. Get out.
4. Get out.
5. Get out!
gift of gab
/ɡˈɪft ʌv ɡˈæb/
nounan ability to easily and confidently speak to people and persuade them to do something particular
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1. So, I play a character that went through life as a con artist, gift of gab, never really had to try or apply myself.
2. this is the rhythmic unit of the verse, and all the rhythmic interest comes from the different ways Gift of Gab places it around the bar.
3. to reiterate, though, no one is actually playing a tresillo: Gift of Gab or, occasionally, Chief Xcel is rapping on every single 16th note.
4. the simple fact that Gift of Gab can change your perception of the rhythm without actually changing anything that we would traditionally consider part of the rhythm shows that our conception of what counts a rhythmic is, at best, incomplete.
5. So for me it's video but you might be a great writer but you're uncomfortable in front of a camera or you like the gift of gab but not in front of a camera
to harangue
/hɝˈæŋ/
verbto give a speech that is lengthy, loud, and angry intending to either persuade or criticize
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1. What is a meringue harangue?
2. For the next few months, Kafka’s father harangued him.
3. By the way, the Clinton campaign is haranguing these guys,
4. The old gentleman ended his harangue.
5. The old gentleman ended his harangue.
harangue
/hɝˈæŋ/
nounan angry speech that is loud and lengthy
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1. What is a meringue harangue?
2. For the next few months, Kafka’s father harangued him.
3. By the way, the Clinton campaign is haranguing these guys,
4. The old gentleman ended his harangue.
5. The old gentleman ended his harangue.
honest broker
/ˈɑːnɪst bɹˈoʊkɚ/
nouna country or someone who is unbiased and tries to help others come to an agreement
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1. But, of course, for every Bialystock, there's a Buffett, for every Bernie Madoff, 1,000 honest brokers, because there have always been two faces of finance.
2. He meant to be a good soldier, a good guy, a middle man, an honest broker, an American president you could deal with, an American who is sympathetic to you.
3. ISOO serves as an honest broker overseeing protection of the information that safeguards the American government and its people.
4. When local disputes broke out in Thessaly, Philip II would put himself forward as an honest broker, offering his services to resolve the dispute.
5. Dodgy cowboys would replace honest brokers.
to induce
/ˌɪnˈdus/
verbto influence someone to do something particular
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1. Capitalism induced shame.
2. Eventually, doctors induced a coma.
3. Fear- inducing uncertainty.
4. Now, this sub-game induces a different value for Jake.
5. However, certain types of seafood like shellfish can induce allergic reactions.
inducement
/ˌɪnˈdusmənt/
nounsomething given to someone in order to persuade or encourage them to do something particular
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1. You move your inducement thing.
2. Is this exploitation, or undue inducement?
3. Is this undue inducement, or exploitation?
4. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest.
5. Now this has to be one of the most powerful inducements.
to intercede
/ˌɪntɝˈsid/
verbto talk to someone in order to persuade them to help settle an argument or not to punish someone else
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1. Fortunately, after a few months, the master at King’s School interceded on Isaac’s behalf, convincing Hannah that he was best suited back with them.
2. Unfortunately for him other things intercede.
3. We can intercede.
4. And because people interceded on her behalf.
5. He interceded many times on behalf of clients in his hometown Arpinum, for which he functioned as a collective patron of the entire settlement.
intercession
/ˌɪnɝˈsɛʃən/, /ˌɪntɝˈsɛʃən/
nounthe action of talking to someone so that they help settle an argument or show kindness to someone else
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1. Saint Joseph, do assist me, empower intercession and obtain me-- - That's it?
2. This temporary alienation from God is ultimately repaired through Moses' intense prayer and intercession.
3. The notion that I, possessor of spiritual reserves and spiritual power, can pray for you, sinful knight, sinful king, sinful merchant, is called intercession.
4. After his death, then, his intercession was invoked across Europe, and his cult spread from country to country.
5. You will need An exemplary life and miracles attributed to your intercession.
to interest in
/ˈɪntɹəst ˈɪn/
verbto try to persuade someone to do, eat, or buy something specific
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1. These columnists were educated, interested in politics, mostly progressive, and, perhaps most importantly, completely anonymous.
2. They APPARENTLY contained Black Powder and the FBI interested in where those attached Kitchen Timers Came from.
3. Anyone interested in TREATMENT
4. And lastly, the thought behind the video originally was to create something that attracts people interested in classic men's style and detracts people who are not interested in it.
5. Things like elections, political leaders and parties, different causes to which they may feel some attraction, interested in wars and revolutions that they see or have heard about.
intermediary
/ˌɪnɝˈmidiɛɹi/, /ˌɪntɝˈmidiɛɹi/
nounan organization or someone who helps others to reach an agreement
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1. He was the intermediary.
2. They are intermediaries.
3. And these intermediaries take different shapes and forms.
4. Are there intermediaries?
5. Nell mentioned 16 intermediaries.
intermediary
/ˌɪnɝˈmidiɛɹi/, /ˌɪntɝˈmidiɛɹi/
adjectiveacting as a conversation medium between two groups of people so they can create an argument
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1. He was the intermediary.
2. They are intermediaries.
3. And these intermediaries take different shapes and forms.
4. Are there intermediaries?
5. Nell mentioned 16 intermediaries.
to intervene
/ˌɪntɝˈvin/
verbto intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse
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1. But senior Justice Department officials intervened.
2. But complexity intervened.
3. JAMES GREINER: Or data intervened.
4. However Adrian's parents intervened.
5. Then his hero intervened.
intervention
/ˌɪntɝˈvɛnʃən/
nouninvolvement in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse
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1. The intervention reduced the participants’ negative thoughts and feelings two to three times more effectively than a control group.
2. Where's your intervention?
3. One is intervention from outside.
4. Can we monitor interventions?
5. Early intervention has showed some very promising results for those with autism.
to jolly into
/dʒˈɑːli ˌɪntʊ/
verbto encourage or persuade someone to do something by putting them in a good mood
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to lobby
/ˈɫɑbi/
verbto make an attempt to persuade politicians to agree or disagree with a law being made or changed
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1. - Inside two North Korean dictators father and son dominate the lobby.
2. People were lobbying forever.
3. We lobby tech companies.
4. Hire companies are lobbying for a change in the law.
5. This lobby is insane.
lobbyist
/ˈɫɑbiəst/
nounsomeone who attempts to persuade politicians to agree or disagree with a law being made or changed
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1. Lobbyists play a major role in American policymaking.
2. Trump staffers have to become lobbyists.
3. Trump staffers have to become lobbyists.
4. Local governments have lobbyists in DC.
5. They have their lobbyists.
to lure
/ˈɫʊɹ/
verbto trick someone into doing something or going somewhere by offering them a reward or something interesting
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1. The rival's efficiency slowly lured users away from Yahoo!
2. It lures our wills.
3. Atilla: Giant forks, swords, knives, lures.
4. The Bariba use hunting lures.
5. The Bariba use hunting lures.