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61motivate — I verb activate, actuate, adjure, advise, affect, allure, animate, appeal, arouse desire, attract, captivate, carry weight, cause, challenge, charge, command, compel, convince, direct, draw, encourage, exert influence, exhort, fill with longing,… …
62sway — I noun authority, command, control, domain, dominance, domination, dominion, force, governance, influence, jurisdiction, leadership, power, predominance, prestige, primacy, reign, rule, supremacy II (persuade) verb actuate, coax, control, convert …
63gain — Synonyms and related words: accept, access, accession, accomplish, accretion, accrual, accrue, accruement, accumulate, accumulation, achieve, achievement, acquire, acquisition, addition, admit, advance, advantage, aggrandizement, ameliorate,… …
64talk over — Synonyms and related words: advise with, air, analyze, argue into, assure, bargain, be convincing, bring home to, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, call in, canvass, captivate, carry conviction, charm, collogue, comment upon, compare… …
65influence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Power to effect decision Nouns 1. influence, importance, weight, pressure, preponderance; predominance, predominancy (see superiority); power, sway; ascendancy; hegemony, reign, control, authority; bias …
66St. Polycarp — St. Polycarp † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Polycarp Martyr (A.D. 69 155). Our chief sources of information concerning St. Polycarp are: (1) the Epistles of St. Ignatius; (2) St. Polycarp s own Epistle to the Philippians;… …
67Kurukshetra War — (Details given are according to the epic Mahabharata) The position of the Kuru kingdom in Iron Age Vedic India …
68affect — I verb act on, adficere, bear upon, cause to alter, cause to vary, change, commovere, conduce, exert influence, have an effect upon, have influence, impress, induce, influence, introduce a change, make a change, play a direct part, prevail upon,… …
69pressure — Synonyms and related words: abetment, adverse circumstances, adversity, advocate, affliction, aggravation, albatross, annoyance, apply pressure, argumentum baculinum, ascendancy, authority, bale, bear against, bear down on, bear down upon, bear… …
70induce — I verb actuate, adducere, be responsible, bring about, bring on, bring to pass, call forth, cause, conduce, convince, create, effect, effectuate, exercise influence over, generate, hasten, impellere, incite, inducere, influence, instigate, kindle …