| entice | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. entice, lure, tempt | provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion.; "He lured me into temptation" |
| ~ snare, hook | entice and trap.; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers" |
| ~ seduce | lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct.; "She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor" |
| ~ call | lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal.; "Call ducks" |
| ~ stool | lure with a stool, as of wild fowl. |
| ~ lead on | entice or induce especially when unwise or mistaken. |
| ~ tweedle | entice through the use of music. |
| ~ provoke, stimulate | provide the needed stimulus for. |
| ~ decoy | lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy. |
| ~ bait | lure, entice, or entrap with bait. |
| lure | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. come-on, enticement, lure | qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward. |
| ~ attractiveness, attraction | the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts.; "her personality held a strange attraction for him" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener | anything that serves as an enticement. |
| ~ enticement, temptation | something that seduces or has the quality to seduce. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. bait, decoy, lure | something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed. |
| ~ chum | bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish. |
| ~ device | an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" |
| ~ fish lure, fisherman's lure | (angling) any bright artificial bait consisting of plastic or metal mounted with hooks and trimmed with feathers. |
| ~ ground bait | bait scattered on the water to attract fish. |
| ~ stool pigeon | a dummy pigeon used to decoy others. |
| ~ trap | a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned. |
| hostage | | |
| n. (person) | 1. hostage, surety | a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms. |
| ~ captive, prisoner | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war. |
| quarry | | |
| n. (person) | 1. fair game, prey, quarry, target | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" |
| ~ victim | an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. pit, quarry, stone pit | a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" |
| ~ chalk pit, chalkpit | a quarry for chalk. |
| ~ excavation | a hole in the ground made by excavating. |
| ~ gravel pit | a quarry for gravel. |
| n. (animal) | 3. prey, quarry | animal hunted or caught for food. |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| v. (consumption) | 4. quarry | extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.; "quarry marble" |
| ~ quarrying | the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry. |
| ~ exploit, tap | draw from; make good use of.; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely" |
| ~ cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
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