Encourage and Tempt

Encourage

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

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Tempt verb - To lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage.

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Encourage and tempt are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Tempt".

Nearby Words: tempting, temptation, tempter

person	encourage person	tempt person
cooperation	encourage cooperation	tempt cooperation
character	encourage character	tempt character
people	encourage people	tempt people
Other words: men, children, someone, characters, viewer, anyone, player, everyone, humans, viewers, kids, readers, members, girls.

When Ritcher decides to ignore the phone calls that encourage him to go and kill Russian mobsters, he finds his car on fire on the next day, with the very next call telling him not to tempt fate.

Source: The Call Knows Where You Live

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