Guide and Serve

Guide

Guide verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.

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Serve and guide are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Serve" instead a verb "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Serve verb - To have a certain purpose.

Usage example: the harsh punishment served to teach everyone a lesson

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Guide and serve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a verb "Serve".

Nearby Words: service, served, serving

humanity	guide humanity	serve humanity
party	guide party	serve party
life	guide life	serve life
people	guide people	serve people
Other words: way, father, humans, powers.

If a human mentor isn't there to guide the character through the trip, a Spirit Advisor may appear and serve as a guide.

Source: Higher Understanding Through Drugs
Samwise protests when Sméagol offers to serve as Frodo's guide to Mordor, suspecting that Sméagol is still Gollum, and therefore still evil.

Source: Right for the Wrong Reasons
The logs mostly serve as a guide for the levels, enemies, and bosses the player encounters.

Source: Apocalyptic Log

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