Words: inveigle [AHED]

TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: in·vei·gled, in·vei·gling, in·vei·gles
1. To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk. See synonyms at lure. 2. To obtain by cajolery: inveigled a free pass to museum.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English envegle, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind, from aveugle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus : Latin ab-, away from; see ab–1 + Latin oculus, eye (probably loan-translation of Gaulish exsops ( exs-, from + ops, eye); see okw- in Appendix I.