Guide
Guide verb - To look after and make decisions about.
Usage example: thought the new superintendent would guide the school system well
Keep
Keep verb - To look after and make decisions about.
Usage example: enlisted a relative to keep the store while she was away
How words are described
| old | old guide | old keep |
| good | good guide | good keep |
| full | full guide | full keep |
| best | best guide | best keep |
| Other adjectives: short, complete, original, actual, vocal, massive, big, great, huge, main, cute, major. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Not only are many of the clues found in the literal in-game "guide," but there's no index on the thing, so you have to keep guessing searches.
Source: Guide Dang It / Adventure - In the YA book, Banner In The Sky by James Ramsey Ullman, the widow of a famed mountain guide tries to keep her son from following in his his father's footsteps as a guide.
Source: Turn Out Like His Father -
In fact, the real Sue Thomas spent much of her tenure at the FBI working as a tour guide because there wasn't enough lip-reading surveillance work to keep her employed full-time in that role.
Source: Series / Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
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