Discuss 101
The verb to discourse, which has its etymological origin in the Latin word discurrĕre, has several meanings. The concept can refer to the action of creating, imagining or drawing something.
For example: “Don’t worry, I’m going to come up with a method so that we don’t waste time”, “The commercial manager promised to come up with a procedure that allows us to get to the points of sale faster”, “We have to come up with a plan to get out of this situation”.
Discussing can also refer to reflecting or thinking about an issue. When carrying out this action, we inevitably stop the development of another, whether it has started before or is about to start: “The young man acted without thinking that his decision was going to generate a risk for his colleagues”, “I spent several hours thinking about the problem and honestly I can’t find any solution”, “Can you shut up for a second and discuss what you just proposed? It’s crazy. ”
Another meaning of the term is linked to the progress of something in its development or in time: “The local supporters decided to interrupt the course of the meeting, dissatisfied with the referee’s rulings”, “The literary meeting will take place in the municipal cultural center throughout the afternoon”, “The conference was going on normally until the power went out”.
The action of running, finally, can refer to a physical displacement: “The police authorities explained that the flow of the demonstration will take place along the Central Avenue to the Plaza de Armas”, “The flow of the river was modified in the first decades of the 20th century with the construction of a dam”, “Huddled in front of the door, dozens of onlookers watched the progress of the teams that had already arrived at the hotel”.
By looking at the synonyms of a term we can more easily understand the different nuances that it can represent, since many times it is not enough to know its meanings, but rather it is necessary to see it in context, in as many sentences as possible, so that it displays all its meanings. vertices. In this case, in addition to the synonyms that have been exposed in the previous paragraphs, we can add the following: calculate, reason, ponder, deduce, conjecture, infer, suppose and meditate.
We can use these words to delve deeper into the examples already raised, with the sole exception of sentences in which discourse acts as a synonym for devise or create. However, to carry out these actions it is necessary to reason, calculate, conjecture, ponder, meditate and, why not, suppose, since one relies on certain assumptions and hypotheses throughout the creative processes.
When a person prepares to discuss a topic or a problem, he adopts an open, flexible position, which gives rise to unforeseen events and the opinions of others. This word does not usually have direct antonyms, but a trick to find the constructions of opposite meaning is to look for the antonyms of some related term, such as the reflexive adjective, from the family of the verb to reflect, previously mentioned as one of the meanings of discourse: someone “unreflective” can be described as crazy, reckless, impulsive or thoughtless.
In this way, we have a tool to express the opposite meaning of the verb discourse. If we take the sentence «The young woman decided to reason about her proposal before going ahead» and we want to invert the subject’s decision, we can choose «The young woman thoughtlessly went ahead »; the strength of this construction is much greater than Ella «she decided not to discourse».
With respect to the meanings that speak of a physical displacement, some of the synonyms of passing are: pass, flow, march, slide, walk, go, run and walk; two possible antonyms in this case are stop and stop.
