lure vs persuade

lure

verb
  • To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile. 

  • To recall a hawk with a lure. 

  • To attract fish with a lure. 

noun
  • Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. 

  • A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk. 

  • An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish. 

  • A velvet smoothing brush. 

persuade

verb
  • To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. 

How often have the words lure and persuade occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )