Encourage
Encourage verb - To rouse to strong feeling or action.
Usage example: the movie's cheap special effects will not encourage audiences to sit on the edge of their seats but to roll in the aisles with laughter
Key and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Key" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Key
Key verb - To bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences.
Both words in one sentence
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One of the key features of Saints Row is clothing customization and the game goes to great lengths to encourage the player to change their outfit constantly.
Source: Video Game / Saints Row 2 - The key mechanic of the game, Ingenuity, is designed to encourage players to produce outrageous plans that could never work in real life (or even other game systems)... and then watch them happen.
Source: Rule of Fun - The key is for the hypnotist to encourage everyone to "play along" and have fun.
Source: Hypno Fool
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