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Persuading
- verb - cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"
- win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters"
Persuasion
- noun - a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
- the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
Persuasive
- adjective - intended or having the power to induce action or belief; "persuasive eloquence"; "a most persuasive speaker"; "a persuasive argument"
Pertaining
- verb - be a part or attribute of
- be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
Perturbing
- verb - cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
- throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
Perversion
- noun - a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"
- an aberrant sexual practice;
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
Perversity
- noun - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
Perversive
- adjective - tending to corrupt or pervert
Perverting
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
Petal-Like
- adjective - resembling a petal