Thursday, August 13, 2009

Inveigh

Inveigh: Inveigh means to attack and sharing its etymology with invasion, invective, and invasive, but not inveigle.
As any parent of a teenager child will tell you, the essential contrariness of adolescents suggests that the more adults inveigh against smoking and lecture teenagers about its dangers, the more teens, paradoxically, will want to try it.

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