Words meaning to urge somebody to do something he shouldn’t: “Mike wouldn’t have tried that if the other boys hadn’t ________.”
This question was slightly altered from the 1965–70 question.
| EGGED HIM ON | 5 |
| NEEDLED HIM | 4 |
| PUT HIM UP TO IT | 4 |
| AGGED HIM ON | 2 |
| ENCOURAGED HIM | 2 |
| KEPT AT HIM | 2 |
| BUGGED | 1 |
| BULLIED | 1 |
| CALLED HIM CHICKEN | 1 |
| CHALLENGED HIM | 1 |
| DARED HIM | 1 |
| DONE IT | 1 |
| EGGED | 1 |
| ENCOURAGED | 1 |
| FORCED HIM | 1 |
| HARASSED HIM | 1 |
| INCITED HIM | 1 |
| NUDGED | 1 |
| PROVOKED | 1 |
| PUSHED | 1 |
| PUSHED HIM | 1 |
| SPURRED | 1 |
| TEASED | 1 |
| THREATENED | 1 |
| TRICKED HIM | 1 |
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