Contest
Contest verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
How words are described
| good | good contest | good help |
| female | female contest | female help |
| physical | physical contest | physical help |
| best | best contest | best help |
| Other adjectives: similar, actual, real, big, little, secret, possible, final, further, last, local. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Oreki then gives the flour to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (by tossing it down from a window instead of actually going down there himself, naturally).
Source: Literature / Hyouka -
Instead Pearl uses the knife to trim Angels bikini and make it look skimpier in order to help her win the contest.
Source: Western Animation / Fish Police - While it got better in the Battle Frontier, in which it finally got trained and became one of May's battlers, it didn't help that he lost a contest to Harley.
Source: The Scrappy / Pokémon
Cite this Source
Help and Contest. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contest/help
Contest & Help. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/contest/help>.
Help or Contest. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contest/help.
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