OK, last but not least on this blessedly cool late-July morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb cajole. It means “to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance,” “coax,” “to obtain from someone by gentle persuasion,” and “to deceive with soothing words or false promises.”
This isn’t, I will stipulate, a high-frequency word in English. It is, however, a useful one. This verb is only used transitively, do don’t forget your direct object: The teacher cajoled his students into reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
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