Aid
Aid noun - A person who helps a more skilled person.
Cost
Cost noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.
How words are described
| human | human aid | human cost |
| sheer | sheer aid | sheer cost |
| actual | actual aid | actual cost |
| real | real aid | real cost |
| Other adjectives: massive, great, little, possible, minimal, significant, greater, said, financial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Infinite instead has each Vigor upgraded separately according to user preference, with an "aid" or a lowered Salts cost, though both can be learned.
Source: Video Game / BioShock -
He comes to aid the States at a great personal cost because he believes in the ideals of freedom and hopes to bring the same to France.
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Their abilities all aid others at the cost of damage to themselves, and they tend to be pretty short-lived because of it.
Source: Martyr Without a Cause
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