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Persuasive 84% connected

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.

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Persuasive 84% connected

Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.

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Powerful 84% connected

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine;…

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Powerful 84% connected

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine;…

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Strong 84% connected

Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.

general 62% interchangeable

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Authentic noun · 78% connection

Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it pu…

Used in the same subject area: Persuasive language, Credibility and trust.
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Authority noun · 78% connection

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisd…

Used in the same subject area: Persuasive language, Credibility and trust.
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Credibility noun · 78% connection

The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

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Adact verb · 78% connection

To compel; to drive.

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Banish verb · 78% connection

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

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Bayonet verb · 78% connection

To compel or drive by the bayonet.

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Chase verb · 78% connection

To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to c…

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Coact verb · 78% connection

To force; to compel; to drive.

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Coactive adjective · 78% connection

Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

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Coerce verb · 78% connection

To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.

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Cogent p. a. · 78% connection

Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

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Compellatory adjective · 78% connection

Serving to compel; compulsory.

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Compelled imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Compel

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Compulsive adjective · 78% connection

Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

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Constrain verb · 78% connection

To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.

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Convincingly adverb · 78% connection

in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.

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Distrain verb · 78% connection

To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

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Distress noun · 78% connection

To compel by pain or suffering.

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Distringas noun · 78% connection

A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.

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Dragoon verb · 78% connection

To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

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Drive verb · 78% connection

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communic…

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