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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | temptingness, allurement, allure |
| Derivation | invite |
she was an invitation to trouble.
Examples of invitation
invitation
Should we apologize and explain why their daughter didn't receive an invitation?
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Please tell me the best way to handle the wedding shower and wedding invitation.
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That game started the three-game winning streak that netted the bowl invitation.
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He is hoping to get an invitation to make an official visit to Michigan as well.
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The subsequent conversation produced an unexpected invitation for a partnership.
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Further pressing only elicits an invitation to read the local Hamilton coverage.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He earned his first invitation to a national team training camp in January 2006.
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I am genuinely flattered by his invitation to spend the week up top, as it were.
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At the invitation of Dr. John Montague, she and two others move into Hill House.
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- A request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitation away"
- A tempting allurement; "she was an invitation to trouble"
- (invitatory) conveying an invitation; "a brief invitatory note"
- (invite) a colloquial expression for invitation; "he didn't get no invite to the party"
- (invite) increase the likelihood of; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism"
- Invite someone to one's house; "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?"
- Invitation is a 1993 album by jazz pianist Joe Sample released through Warner Bros. Records. This album contains reinterpretations (remakes) of jazz standard compositions written by artists such as Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, among others (as listed in parenthesis in the track list). ...
- Invitation is the first full-length studio album from the Finnish power metal band Altaria.
- Invitation is a 1952 melodrama starring Van Johnson and Dorothy McGuire as a happily married couple, until the wife learns a secret about her husband. The film was based on the short story "R.S.V.P." by Jerome Weidman.
