ingratiate
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To bring oneself into favour with someone through deliberate effort to please.
He spent his first month trying to ingratiate himself with the executives rather than doing the job.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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