GRE Word List
DISSUADE
to advise (a person) against something
The meaning of the word dissuade is to advise (a person) against something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| reverie | daydream |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |