SAT vocabulary

Induce

to succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something; to bring about or give rise to.

Example

"The advertising campaign was designed to induce customers to buy the new product."

From Latin 'inducere' meaning 'to lead or bring in, introduce, persuade', from 'in-' (into, in) + 'ducere' (to lead).

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