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Words with variant spellings



This week's words

durance

suasion

versal

monish

complice



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suasion PRONUNCIATION: (SWAY-zhuhn)

MEANING: noun: The act of urging: persuasion.

(Often used in the phrase 'moral suasion')

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin suadere (to advise). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swad- (sweet, pleasant), which also gave us sweet, suave, hedonism, persuade, and Hindi swad (taste). Earliest documented use: 1374.

USAGE: "He was so convinced by my arguments that he lent me his best riding-horse without further suasion."

Neal Stephenson; Quicksilver; William Morrow; 2003.

See more usage examples of suasion in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. -Eduardo Galeano, journalist and novelist (b. 1940)





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