Usage Note
Tentación is always feminine and typically paired with caer en la tentación ('to give in to temptation') or resistir la tentación ('to resist temptation'). The verb form is tentar ('to tempt'), which is stem-changing (e > ie): tienta, tientas.
Examples
"No pudo resistir la tentación del chocolate."
Natural Translation
She couldn't resist the temptation of chocolate.

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