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 |
|---|---|
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| sidetrack | siding |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |