Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for Sep 4th: ingratiate

Hello everyone, I’m Mr. Long and welcome back to iMrLong’s English Studio. It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for September 4th. Today’s word is ingratiate. Ingratiate is a verb that means to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort —It’s usually used with the preposition with.
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Here’s the word used in a sentence by Zadie Smith from White Teeth:
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"He ingratiated himself with Crispin, deliberately ignoring Crispin's suspicion of him." — Zadie Smith, White Teeth, 2000
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