Authority and Help

Authority

Authority noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

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Help and authority are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Help" instead a noun "Authority".

Help noun - An act or instance of helping.

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Authority and help are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Authority" instead a noun "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

human	human authority	human help
good	good authority	good help
direct	direct authority	direct help
legal	legal authority	legal help
Other adjectives: proper, actual, real, great, little, personal, secret, supernatural, new, major, final, outside, less, limited, military, extra, last, local, medical.

You can either help his brother retain his power (Dark Side) or help his father regain his rightful authority.

Source: Characters / Knights of the Old Republic
In the episode introducing Bamm-Bamm, Barney, wanting to make a good impression on the child authority, paid an old lady ten dollars a day to help her across the street continuously.

Source: Helping Granny Cross the Street
In The Monster Squad, when most local authority figures don't take them seriously, one of the cast sends a note written in crayon to the army asking for help against the monster invasion.

Source: Reasonable Authority Figure

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