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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
originFrom Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin *intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō (“firebrand (tool)”), from Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0