Cajole (verb) – to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by making promises or saying nice things.
This was found in “Beloved,” on page 295, in the first line of the second paragraph. “Washing, cooking, forcing, cajoling her mother to eat a little now and then, providing sweet things for Beloved as often as she could to calm her down.”
Denver tried to persuade her mother to eat.
