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21.02.2020 • 
English

Read the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" and answer the question.

A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.
What is the meaning of the word coax as it is used in the passage?

A. force
B. persuade
C. expect
D. repair

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