Communication
Synonyms for dissuade
The synonym for dissuade recorded in this bank is deter, in the sense "turn away from by persuasion". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for dissuade
- deterverb, in the sense "turn away from by persuasion"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day dissuade is audited in a second meaning.
turn away from by persuasion
Negative campaigning will only dissuade people.
The true synonym
deter
Same sentence, swapped: Negative campaigning will only deter people.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot dissuade is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- persuade
- admonish
- exhort
Where dissuade turns up in the game
dissuade is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play dissuade
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dissuade reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other communication words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dissuade carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.