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seduction The company began its campaign of seduction of the smaller firm by inviting its top management to a series of weekends at expensive resorts. sɪˈdəkʃən

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(1) Temptation to sin, especially temptation to sexual intercourse. (2) Attraction or charm. Seduction, with its prefix se-, “aside,” means basically “lead aside or astray.” In Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a large scarlet A, for “adulteress,” after it is revealed that she's been seduced by the Reverend Dimmesdale. Seduction also takes less physical forms. Advertisements constantly try to seduce us (often using sex as a temptation) into buying products we hadn't even known existed

word	seduction
definition	(1) Temptation to sin, especially temptation to sexual intercourse. (2) Attraction or charm.
eg_sentence	The company began its campaign of seduction of the smaller firm by inviting its top management to a series of weekends at expensive resorts.
explanation	Seduction, with its prefix se-, “aside,” means basically “lead aside or astray.” In Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a large scarlet A, for “adulteress,” after it is revealed that she's been seduced by the Reverend Dimmesdale. Seduction also takes less physical forms. Advertisements constantly try to seduce us (often using sex as a temptation) into buying products we hadn't even known existed
IPA	sɪˈdəkʃən

Seduction Temptation Scarlet Sin Sexual Intercourse Attraction Charm