Monday, June 8, 2009

Word of the Week: Dissuade

DISSUADE (di SWAYD)
  • verb: to persuade not to (the opposite of persuade)

The driver's ed instructor dissuades reckless driving with color slides of car accidents.

Now write!

Use the word dissuade in a freewrite exercise. How many synonyms can you generate? How about antonyms?