This week's theme
Words with variant spellings

This week's words
durance
suasion
versal
monish
complice

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A.Word.A.Day

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.

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