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Persuades
- 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"
Pertained
- 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"
Pertainym
- noun - meaning relating to or pertaining to
Pertinacy
- - The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.
Pertinent
- adjective - being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
- having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the discussion"; "remarks that were to the point"
- relevant
Perturbed
- 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"
- 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"
- thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
Perturber
- - One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.
Pertusion
- - The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein.