Help and Instruct

Help

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Instruct and help are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Instruct" instead a verb "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Instruct verb - To cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field.

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Help and instruct are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Help" instead a verb "Instruct".

Nearby Words: instruction, instructor, instructive, instructing

person	help person	instruct person
girl	help girl	instruct girl
man	help man	instruct man
woman	help woman	instruct woman
Other words: people, boy, group, children, someone, team, characters, doctor, player, everyone, times, kids, players, guys.

Psychic Link: Ren has one with Hell Kitchen, which Hell Kitchen uses to speak to Ren to help or instruct him.

Source: Webcomic / The Boy Who Fell
It doesn't help when the end-of-infomercial voiceover guy cheerfully pipes up to instruct you how to "order your copy of The Nazis."

Source: Narm / Advertising
If you talk to him, he will instruct you to help him bring about the return of the kings (see But Thou Must below).

Source: Video Game / Goblet Grotto

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