GRE Word List
DISSUADE
to advise (a person) against something
The meaning of the word dissuade is to advise (a person) against something.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |