Encourage and Taunt

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

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Antonyms for Encourage

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Taunt

Taunt verb - To attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults.

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Encourage and taunt are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Taunt".

Nearby Words: taunting, taunted, tauntingly

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Common collocations

children	encourage children	taunt children
someone	encourage someone	taunt someone
audience	encourage audience	taunt audience
way	encourage way	taunt way
Other words: opponent, player, protagonist, enemy, everyone, humans, kids, friends, players, fans, heroes, girls.

Both words in one sentence

Depending on the character's personnality, if you played at lower levels they'll either congratulate you for completing the game, but encourage you to try the next difficulty level (for the nice chars), or outright taunt you or be angry towards you (for the meaner chars).

Source: Video Game / Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken

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