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[in-VAY-gahl, in-VEE-gahl] 
1. to win over by charm, flattery, or deception; to ensnare; to lure
2. to obtain by persuasion or cajolery: "Carolyn had the money, but she preferred to inveigle tickets from her friends in the industry."
noun forms: inveiglement, inveigler
Origin:
Approximately 1494; from Middle English, 'envegle'; from Middle French, 'aveugler': to delude, to make blind, from 'aveugle': blind; from Vulgar Latin, 'aboculus': without sight, blind (from Latin 'ab-': without, away from + 'oculus': eye). In action:
"'We're really just weekend cricketers,' says an apologetic Amer Afzaluddin, 20, an engineering student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. And while it's true that most of the team's 18 members -- only 11 play at a time -- are professional men who spend their weekdays behind desks, the grade of game that is played here is nothing to be ashamed of. Afzaluddin, in fact, was a member of the U.S. National Team that copped the America's Cup tournament in 2002.
And what they lack in on-field brilliance, these players make up for with their expansionist plans. Like those long-ago soccer enthusiasts, they are determined to inveigle their way into the American consciousness.
'We'll have youth camps next summer,' says team captain Muhammad Yousaf, 33, who works in quality/reliability at Ford. 'This is the way we must begin -- get people involved when they are young. This is how baseball and basketball do it. We must do it, too.'"
David Lyman. "Slowly Bowling 'Em Over: Cricket -- baseball's older brother -- draws small but ardent following," The Detroit Free Press (September 15, 2003).
"For the next few months the four endure the debilitating inertia of isolation punctuated only by steady squabbling and complex negotiations: Juan playing his power games with Yvonne and Pauline; Juan and Yvonne putting pressure on Pauline; and all three pushing this way and that to inveigle and then rebuff Jenny. Jenny, for her part, is alienated and frustrated -- unable to find a sense of common cause -- though from time to time she succumbs to a need for simple human solidarity and joins in their smoky, drunken gatherings.
The narrative in these pages is slow and credible, shifting only by slow degrees, first as Juan compels the group to start quasi-military training exercises -- 'she constantly saw them jogging, through the overgrown pasture uphill from the house' -- and then, as they are nearly without money, begins to plan the robbery of a local merchant."
Sven Birkerts. "'American Woman': Days of the Cobra," [Book Review of 'American Woman,' by Susan Choi] The New York Times (October 5, 2003).
"Think back to your life before money, that prelapsarian time when the subject did not possess an iron grip on your everyday thoughts and actions. Do your childhood memories go back that far? As adults, we strive to amass enough money to buy anything we desire, or we try to live a simple enough life to avoid its pressures. Both aspirations reflect a desire to return to that childlike Garden of Eden.
The hard truth is that long before the last school bell tolls, money has already inveigled itself into our identities. Some of us will idealistically try to rise above money's unseemly effects; others are already on the road to becoming money addicts. Either way, we've learned we can't get along without it. The age of innocence is over.
So how and when does this happen? It's a question that growing numbers of companies in the money business are eager to learn. One study at Texas A&M University says children under 12 spend $18 billion a year of their own money -- four times what Mattel brings in a year."
Kevin Kelleher. "Get them while they're young," Salon.com (June 12, 1998).
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