Accept
Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Accept and encourage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Accept" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
| people | accept people | encourage people |
| relationship | accept relationship | encourage relationship |
| someone | accept someone | encourage someone |
| way | accept way | encourage way |
| Other words: anyone, homosexuality. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- It's generally frowned upon as bad role-playing, though games placing low emphasis on role-playing might accept or encourage it.
Source: Metagame - It could also be done to encourage the student to accept the possibility of losing more easily than he might have otherwise.
Source: A Lesson In Defeat -
The core rulebook features a story about a town where every year, several people die without any explanation, and they encourage the new-in-town priest to quietly accept it.
Source: Town with a Dark Secret
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