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persuasive

 adjective
     
per‧sua‧sive
able to make other people believe something or do what you ask:
Trevor can be very persuasive.
persuasive argument/evidence
a persuasive argument against capital punishment
—persuasively adverb
—persuasiveness noun [uncountable]
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