Entry Word: baiter

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another <vowed revenge someday on the baiters who were making his life miserable> — see tormentor
2 one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire <my sister is quite the mischievous baiter, always offering candy even though she knows Iʼm on a diet> — see tempter