Daily Vocabulary (Kosa kata Harian) Episode 27 Intermediate

 

Discourage

/dɪˈskʌr.ɪdʒ/

  

Discourage (Regular Verb) :
Mengecilkan hati / mematahkan semangat

V2 & V3 : Discouraged 

For example :

THE HAUNTED HOUSE by Charles Dickens THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE.

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THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
IN TWO CHAPTER

[1859.]

THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE.

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece.  I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it.  There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.  More than that: I had come to it direct from a railway station: it was not more than a mile distant from the railway station; and, as I stood outside the house, looking back upon the way I had come, I could see the goods train running smoothly along the embankment in the valley.  I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, because I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people—and there my vanity steps in; but, I will take it on myself to say that anybody might see the house as I saw it, any fine autumn morning.