shot in the arm

Strongest matches

• corrective
• healthful
• invigorating
• medicinal
• remedial
• salutary
• therapeutic

Strong matches

• curing
• pick-me-up
• restorative
• tonic

Weak matches

• alleviative
• beneficial
• helpful
• medicable
• medicative
• remedying
• sanative
• vulnerary
• what the doctor ordered
• wholesome

Strongest matches

• assistance
• benefit
• care
• compensation
• cooperation
• gift
• relief
• service
• subsidy
• treatment

Strong matches

• advancement
• advice
• advocacy
• alleviation
• allowance
• assist
• attention
• backing
• backup
• benefaction
• benevolence
• bounty
• charity
• comfort
• deliverance
• encouragement
• endowment
• favor
• furtherance
• giving
• guidance
• hand
• handout
• lift
• ministration
• ministry
• patronage
• promotion
• reinforcement
• rescue
• reward
• salvation
• sustenance

Weak match

• leg up

Strongest matches

• aid
• assistance
• improvement
• lift
• support

Strong matches

• backup
• buildup
• hand
• handout
• help
• leg
• praise
• promotion

Weak matches

• goose
• helping hand
• leg up

Strongest match

• encouragement

Strong matches

• acclamation
• approbation
• approval
• award
• bouquet
• credit
• encomium
• honor
• panegyric
• pay
• plum
• points
• posy
• PR
• puff
• rave
• recommendation
• stroke
• stroking
• tribute

Weak matches

• brownie points
• good opinion
• pat on the back
• pat on the head
• pumping up

Strongest matches

• assistance
• backing
• cheer
• comfort
• confidence
• consolation
• faith
• fortitude
• incentive
• inspiration
• optimism
• reassurance
• relief
• reward
• stimulation
• stimulus

Strong matches

• advance
• advocacy
• aid
• animation
• boost
• easement
• favor
• firmness
• helpfulness
• hope
• incitement
• invigoration
• promotion
• refreshment
• softening
• succor
• supporting
• trust
• urging

Weak matches

• consoling
• enlivening
• inspiritment
• reassuring
• relieving
• solacing

Strong matches

• bang
• boost
• catalyst
• cause
• charge
• encouragement
• fillip
• fireworks
• flash
• goad
• impetus
• impulse
• incentive
• incitement
• inducement
• instigation
• invitation
• kick
• motivation
• motive
• propellant
• provocation
• push
• spur
• stimulant
• stimulation
• sting
• trigger
• turnon
• urging

Weak matches

• eye-opener
• piquing

Strongest matches

• boost
• comfort
• encouragement
• reassurance
• relief

Strong matches

• assist
• assistance
• hand
• pick-me-up
• succor
• support

Weak matches

• leg up
• secours

Strong matches

• analeptic
• catalyst
• drug
• energizer
• incentive
• motivation
• motive
• restorative
• spur
• stimulus
• tonic
• upper

Weak match

• reviver

Strongest matches

• catalyst
• drug
• impetus
• stimulus

Strong matches

• analeptic
• bracer
• energizer
• excitant
• goad
• impulse
• incentive
• incitation
• incitement
• motivation
• motive
• pick-me-up
• restorative
• spur
• tonic
• upper

Weak matches

• reviver
• spark plug

Weak matches

• bang
• boost
• catalyst
• cause
• charge
• encouragement
• eye-opener
• fillip
• fireworks
• flash
• goad
• impetus
• impulse
• incentive
• incitation
• incitement
• inducement
• instigation
• invitation
• kick
• motivation
• motive
• piquing
• prod
• propellant
• push
• spur
• stimulant
• stimulation
• sting
• turnon
• urging

Strongest matches

• catalyst
• encouragement
• fillip
• impetus
• incentive
• motivation
• stimulant
• stimulation

Strong matches

• bang
• boost
• cause
• charge
• fireworks
• flash
• goad
• impulse
• incitation
• incitement
• inducement
• instigation
• invitation
• kick
• motive
• propellant
• push
• spur
• sting
• turnon
• urging

Weak matches

• eye-opener
• piquing

Strong matches

• analeptic
• boost
• bracer
• conditioner
• cordial
• drug
• fillip
• invigorator
• pick-me-up
• pickup
• refresher
• restorative
• stimulant
• strengthener

Weak matches

• livener
• roborant