Congratulate and Encourage

Congratulate

Congratulate verb - To express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune.

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

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

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

person	congratulate person	encourage person
friend	congratulate friend	encourage friend
character	congratulate character	encourage character
people	congratulate people	encourage people
Other words: viewer, opponent, player, everyone, son, friends, players, heroes.

Coming of Age Day (Second Monday of January, January 5 before 2000) - A day to congratulate and encourage people who have reached twenty years (the age of majority) after the previous Coming of Age Day.

Source: Useful Notes / Japanese Holidays
Depending on the character's personnality, if you played at lower levels they'll either congratulate you for completing the game, but encourage you to try the next difficulty level (for the nice chars), or outright taunt you or be angry towards you (for the meaner chars).

Source: Video Game / Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken

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