you can see they have something in common they can be synonyms but entice means attracting by arousing hope or desire seduce means to lead away from duty, accepted principles or proper conduct also means to induce to engage in sex and you can use it to mean attract

Wow what a good question! Also a very hard one to answer lol! I think my first thoughts on this that come to mind are that to entice is much more general and is quite like to lure or to tempt and can be used in many situations, seduce has more of a sexual tone to it, for example we try to seduce the man/woman we like.

The difference between these two words is not as important as how wonderful they are. lol

I usually think entice has to do with attracting someone or something, and seduce means they are already with you, you convince them to agree or do something... in a pleasurable way. Usually this has to do with sex, but it's also common to see "he was seduced by the bank's competitive loan rate", for example. Still sounds saucy! Turns out that "entice" had an old meaning of stirring up a fire, and "seduce" originally meant to lead someone astray... the -duc- part is the same as in "educate" (lead out/lead forward). www.etymonline.com is very useful, anyone know any similar sites??