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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, consoling, easement, enlivening, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, inspiritment, invigoration, optimism, promotion, reassurance, reassuring, refreshment, relief, relieving, reward, shot in the arm, softening, solacing, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | advocacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support for an idea or cause |
| Synonyms: | advancement, aid, assistance, backing, campaigning for, championing, defense, encouragement, justification, pleading for, promotion, promulgation, propagation, proposal, recommendation, upholding, urging |
| Antonyms: | attack, opposition, protest |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | backing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | abetment, accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championing, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, secondment, sponsorship, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | disfavor, opposition |
| Main Entry: | behalf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, cause, concern, countenance, defense, encouragement, favor, furtherance, good, help, part, place, profit, recommendation, representation, sake, service, side, stead, support, welfare |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | applause, supportive yell |
| Synonyms: | acclamation, approbation, approval, cry, encouragement, hurrah, hurray, huzzah, ovation, plaudits, roar, shout |
| Antonyms: | boo |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | alleviation, assist, compassion, compensation, consolation, encouragement, hand, lift, pity, relief, secours, solace, succor, support, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, injury, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | commendation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving of praise; acclaim |
| Synonyms: | Brownie points, PR, acclamation, approbation, approval, award, bouquet, credit, encomium, encouragement, good opinion, honor, panegyric, pat on the back, pat on the head, pay, plum, points, posy, puff, pumping up, rave, recommendation, shot in the arm, stroke, stroking, tribute |
| Antonyms: | blame, censure, criticism, disapproval, reprimand |
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