prevail on



bring round, captivate, charm, con, convince, entice, gain, hook, induce, persuade, pressure, prevail upon, prompt, sell, sway,

   piercingly - bitterly, keenly, sharply ,

   rebuff - abjuration, abjure, backfire, backlash, backlashing, bafflement, baulk, be proof against, bear up, bear up against, beat back, beat off, block, boomerang, bounce,

   luminous energy - emanation, highlight, illumination, irradiation, radiance, radiant energy, radiation, sidelight ,

   a bit - barely, extremely, fairly, hardly, imperfectly, in a way, insignificantly, kind of, lightly, little, minimally, minutely, pretty, quite, rather,

   gimcrackery - chaff, chicken feed, details, froth, minutiae, rubbish, small change, trash, trifle, trivia, trumpery ,

   outcast of society - Ishmael, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, leper, outcast, outlaw, pariah, social outcast, undesirable, untouchable ,

   photolysis - catalysis, catalyst, decay, dissociation, fission, splitting ,

   sea-maid - Davy Jones, Neptune, deity, god, goddess, mermaid, naiad, nix, siren, water sprite ,

   sleepyhead - dawdle, dawdler, drone, foot-dragger, goldbrick, goof-off, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, plodder, procrastinator, sleeper, slow goer, slow-foot, slowpoke,

   pump up - add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bloat, blow up, broaden, build, build up, bulk, crescendo, develop, dilate, distend, enlarge,