Encourage and Welcome

Encourage

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

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Welcome verb - To receive or accept gladly or readily.

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Encourage and welcome are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Welcome".

Nearby Words: welcoming, welcomed

children	encourage children	welcome children
someone	encourage someone	welcome someone
anyone	encourage anyone	welcome anyone
player	encourage player	welcome player
Other words: enemy, everyone, son, humans, viewers, races, students, members, soldiers.

The Enzeen in Galaxy of Fear: Eaten Alive similarly play nice, encourage tourism, and make visitors to their world feel welcome, when in fact the ground eats offworlders, and the Enzeen then feed from it.

Source: Aliens Are Bastards
Trip and Grace are very unhappy in their married life, and you're welcome to either encourage the discord or try and patch things up.

Source: Happy Marriage Charade
By their nature, such stories tend to encourage certain strains of the Science Hero and Guile Hero, and the Rules Lawyer is more than welcome.

Source: Puzzle Thriller

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