| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The power or quality of attracting: allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, charisma, charm, draw, enchantment, enticement, fascination, glamour, lure, magnetism, witchery. Informal : pull. See LIKE. | | VERB: | 1. To direct or impel to oneself by some quality or action: appeal, attract, draw, entice, lure, magnetize, take. Informal : pull. See LIKE. 2. To beguile or draw into a wrong or foolish course of action: entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt. Idioms: lead astray. See PERSUASION.
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