Encourage and Guide

Encourage

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

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Guide verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.

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Encourage and guide are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

character	encourage character	guide character
people	encourage people	guide people
children	encourage children	guide children
development	encourage development	guide development
Other words: way, characters, player, protagonist, behavior, son, humans, reader, races, players, heroes, writers.

The Sword of Truth: This may be a little unfair, but Richard Rahl does maintain and encourage the tradition of everyone regularly bowing down and chanting, "Master Rahl guide us... In your light we thrive...Our lives are yours," for four hours a day.

Source: A God Am I / Literature

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