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 |
|---|---|
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |