badger: to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times (Synonym) pester
(Phrase)
(1) badger someone to do something
(2) badger someone into doing something
(Example)
(1) It is difficult to change someone's opinion by badgering him.
(2) She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.
(3) My friends keep badgering me to get a cell phone.
(4) I had to badger the kids into doing their homework.
interminable: very long and boring (Synonym) endless
(Synonyms)
(1) long-winded
(2) long-drawn-out
(Example)
(1) an interminably long speech
(2) interminable delays
implore: to ask for something in an emotional way
(Synonym)
beg
(Phrase)
implore somebody to do something
(Example)
(1) She implored the soldiers to save her child.
(2) "Don't go," I implored her.
drudgery: hard doing work
(Example)
The child who begs his mother to "get off his back" when she implores him for some assistance with the household drudgery, may very well plead interminably for some special privilege when he wants something for himself.
perceive: to understand or think of something or someone in a particular way
(phrase)
(1) perceive something/ somebody as something
(2) perceive something/ somebody to be something
(Example)
(1) How paradoxical that neither is able to perceive that no one likes being nagged.
(2) Even as a young woman she had been perceived as a future chief executive.
(3) Children who do badly in school tests often perceive themselves to be failures.
(Additional Words)
(1) get off = to leave a place, or to help someone to leave a place
(Example) We'll try and get off straight after lunch.
(2) plead = beg = implore
(Example) "Don't go," Robert pleaded.
(3) privilege = a special advantage that is given only to one person or group of people
(Example) He had no special privileges and was treated just like every other prisoner.
(4) nag = to keep asking someone to do something, or to keep complaining to someone about their behavior, in an annoying way = pester
(Example) I wish you'd stop nagging.
