Affect and Encourage

Affect

Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

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Encourage and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Affect".

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.

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Affect and encourage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

person	affect person	encourage person
character	affect character	encourage character
work	affect work	encourage work
people	affect people	encourage people
Other words: children, relationship, someone, rest, development, way, characters, anyone, player, behavior, everyone, humans, relationships.

But putting a cutting from a willow in the same basin of water as a cutting from another plant can encourage the other cutting to start sprouting roots - the hormones the willow puts into the water affect the other plant too.

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