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21boost — v 1. lift, raise, raise up, cast up, hoist, heft, thrust up; elevate, exalt, upgrade, aggrandize. 2. promote, support, advance, further, forward, help onward, facilitate; publicize, Sl. plug, advertise, write, up, bring or drag into the… …
22brighten — v 1. light, illumine, illuminate, Archaic. illume, irradiate. 2. shine, gloze, burnish, buff, polish, varnish, wax; glaze, gild, gloss, luster, mercerize; freshen, furbish, clean; enhance, adorn, Sl. jazz up, bedeck, beautify. 3. cheer, comfort,… …
23cheer — n 1. shout, yell, hurrah, hurray, huz zah, rah. 2. encouragement, comfort, solace, consolation, relief; hopefulness, hope, faith, confidence, reassurance; inspiration, inspiritment, heartening, enheartenment, emboldening. 3. cheerfulness,… …
24comfort — v 1. console, solace, pacify, calm, compose, tranquilize, give respite to; relieve, ease, alleviate, soften, lighten one s burden, assuage, allay, palliate, ameliorate, mitigate, abate, reduce; reassure, encourage, hearten, enhearten, disburden,… …
25embolden — v encourage, enhearten, hearten, reassure, assure, raise hope, cheer, root, bear up, buoy, buoy up, Inf. chirk, Inf. pat on the back; stimulate, animate, whet, motivate, inspire, inspirit, nerve, pluck up, build up, buck up, rally, revive, boost …
26encourage — v 1. enhearten, hearten, reassure, assure, cheer, root, bear up, buoy, buoy up, Inf. chirk, Inf. pat on the back; stimulate, animate, whet, motivate, embolden, inspire, inspirit, nerve, build up, buck up, rally, boost, invigorate, Sl. give a shot …
27gladden — v cheer, animate, vivify, enliven, brighten, hearten, enhearten, embolden; delight, elate, exhilarate, fill with joy, pleasure, tickle, Inf. tickle pink; inspire, raise the spirits, pick up, buoy up, boost, Inf. give a lift …
28help — v 1. aid, assist, bestead, accommodate, oblige, abet, befriend; contribute, join in, Inf. pitch in, Inf. chip in, lend a hand, lend oneself to, play or do one s part, boost, give a boost to, give a lift to; (all usu. negative) lift a finger, lift …
29inspire — v 1. animate, invigorate, energize, vivify, vitalize, exhilarate; reanimate, revive, revivify, revitalize, rejuvenate; awaken, waken, stir, rally, rouse, arouse; stimulate, inspirit, quicken, whet; excite, thrill, enthuse, exalt. 2. produce,… …
30leaven — n 1. leavening, ferment, barm, pepsin, soda; baking soda, baking powder, yeast, zyme, enzyme, zymogen; maltase, diastase, invertase, zymase. 2. catalyst, catalytic agent, agent, factor, element, determinant; transformer, modifier, alterer,… …
