SAT vocabulary
Cajolery
Coaxing or flattery intended to persuade someone to do something.
Example
"He used every trick of cajolery he knew to get his younger brother to clean his room."
Etymology
From French cajolerie, from cajoler 'to coax, wheedle'.
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