The Jammu and Kashmir government splashed full-page advertisements in local newspapers to _________ people from taking part in the on-going shutdown.

(A) Discourage

(B) Dissuade

(C) Prevented

All of the given options are synonymous to each other but ’prevented’ will make the given sentence grammatically incorrect. Remaining two can be used to fill the given blank to make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option 4.