Cub and Recruit

Cub

Cub noun - A person who is just starting out in a field of activity.

Usage example: the kind of big story that can propel a cub reporter into the stratosphere of the newspaper world

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Recruit and cub are semantically related in youngster topic. In some cases you can use "Recruit" instead a noun "Cub".

Recruit noun - A person who is just starting out in a field of activity.

Usage example: the skydiving instructor and other experienced jumpers tried to encourage the new recruits on their first jump

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Cub and recruit are semantically related in rookie topic. Sometimes you can use "Cub" instead a noun "Recruit". informal substitute

human	human cub	human recruit
female	female cub	female recruit
single	single cub	single recruit
naive	naive cub	naive recruit
Other adjectives: little, black, young, new, last, younger.

Kaa's Hunting: A young Mowgli is abducted by the scatterbrained monkeys, the Bandar-log, and Baloo and Bagheera must recruit Kaa the giant rock python to help them rescue the man-cub.

Source: Literature / The Jungle Book

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