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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)

tempt

/tɛmpt/

verb

to make someone want something, even if it's bad

  • “People are sometimes tempted to eat more than they should.”Tatoeba
  • “I was tempted to skip class and go home early.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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