Credit
Credit noun - Mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon.
Usage example: I give full credit to this report on the prevalence of cheating among college students today
Hope
Hope noun - The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good credit | good hope |
| complete | complete credit | complete hope |
| original | original credit | original hope |
| due | due credit | due hope |
| Other adjectives: single, small, actual, real, little, main, sole, possible, final, remaining, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In 1940, when Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she stated in her acceptance speech that "I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry." It Makes Sense in Context.
Source: You Are a Credit to Your Race -
To its credit, the series does deal with the absurdity of five teenagers being the world's only hope, and in the end they're all shown to have some fairly deep psychological trauma.
Source: Recruit Teenagers with Attitude - In "The Time of the Doctor" the Doctor explains his default plan: talk a lot, hope something good happens, take the credit.
Source: The Meddling Kids Are Useless
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