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shining up to synonyms

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  • beforehand
  • earlier
  • early
  • first
  • foremost
  • forward
  • in front
  • in the forefront
  • in the lead
  • leading
  • previously
  • prior
  • alleviate
  • amend
  • help
  • improve
  • lighten
  • meliorate
  • mitigate
  • relieve
  • step up
  • upgrade
  • bigger
  • choice
  • exceeding
  • exceptional
  • finer
  • fitter
  • greater
  • higher quality
  • improved
  • larger
  • more appropriate
  • more desirable
  • more fitting
  • more select
  • aid
  • assist
  • bear up
  • boost
  • brace
  • buck up
  • bulwark
  • buoy
  • buttress
  • carry
  • cushion
  • help
  • hold up
  • maintain
  • accelerate
  • advance
  • cause
  • expedite
  • generate
  • give rise to
  • induce
  • inspire
  • lead to
  • occasion
  • precipitate
  • prompt
  • apple-polish
  • back-scratch
  • bootlick
  • curry favor
  • fawn on
  • flatter
  • get on the right side of
  • kiss ass
  • scratch one's back
  • suck up to
  • toady
  • adulate
  • bootlick
  • brownnose
  • build up
  • cajole
  • flatter
  • inveigle
  • lay it on thick
  • massage
  • play up to
  • soften
  • spread it on
  • stroke
  • suck up to
  • admire
  • adore
  • appreciate
  • apprize
  • care for
  • clasp
  • cleave to
  • cling to
  • coddle
  • comfort
  • cosset
  • cultivate
  • defend
  • dote on
  • acculturate
  • acquaint
  • advance
  • better
  • cultivate
  • edify
  • educate
  • elevate
  • enlighten
  • ennoble
  • enrich
  • ethicize
  • foster
  • help forward
  • cloister
  • close
  • compass
  • courtyard
  • curtilage
  • enclosure
  • forum
  • patio
  • piazza
  • plaza
  • quad
  • quadrangle
  • square
  • street
  • advance
  • age
  • enroot
  • establish
  • evolve
  • expand
  • flourish
  • foster
  • grow
  • grow up
  • maturate
  • mature
  • mellow
  • progress
  • conduct
  • control
  • cultivation
  • curb
  • development
  • domestication
  • drill
  • drilling
  • education
  • exercise
  • inculcation
  • indoctrination
  • limitation
  • method
  • erect
  • fetch up
  • heighten
  • hike up
  • hoist
  • jack up
  • levitate
  • poise
  • pump
  • put up
  • pyramid
  • raise
  • ramp
  • rear
  • animate
  • applaud
  • boost
  • brighten
  • buck up
  • buoy
  • cheer
  • cheer up
  • comfort
  • console
  • embolden
  • energize
  • enhearten
  • enliven
  • adorn
  • aggrandize
  • ameliorate
  • augment
  • beef up
  • better
  • build
  • build up
  • cultivate
  • decorate
  • develop
  • endow
  • enhance
  • figure in
  • advance
  • back
  • champion
  • cherish
  • cultivate
  • encourage
  • feed
  • foment
  • forward
  • further
  • harbor
  • nurse
  • nurture
  • serve
  • added
  • another
  • else
  • extra
  • farther
  • fresh
  • in addition
  • more
  • new
  • other
  • supplementary
  • accompany
  • amalgamate
  • be friends
  • be in cahoots
  • buddy up
  • bunch up
  • come together
  • confederate
  • consort
  • fraternize
  • gang up
  • get in on
  • get into
  • get together
  • apple polish
  • argue into
  • banter
  • beguile
  • blandish
  • bootlick
  • brownnose
  • build up
  • butter up
  • con
  • crowd
  • deceive
  • decoy
  • delude
  • advance
  • ameliorate
  • better
  • bolster
  • bring on
  • brownnose
  • butter up
  • cherish
  • civilize
  • court
  • develop
  • discipline
  • elevate
  • encourage
  • advance
  • ameliorate
  • amend
  • augment
  • better
  • boost
  • civilize
  • come around
  • convalesce
  • correct
  • cultivate
  • develop
  • doctor up
  • edit
  • attend
  • cherish
  • comfort
  • cultivate
  • encourage
  • foster
  • furnish
  • maintain
  • nurse
  • nurture
  • promote
  • provide
  • supply
  • support
  • RN
  • assistant
  • attendant
  • baby sitter
  • caretaker
  • foster parent
  • medic
  • minder
  • nurse practitioner
  • practical nurse
  • registered nurse
  • sitter
  • therapist
  • wet nurse
  • breeding
  • care
  • diet
  • discipline
  • edibles
  • education
  • feed
  • food
  • instruction
  • nutriment
  • provender
  • provisions
  • rearing
  • subsistence
  • abate
  • alleviate
  • assuage
  • calm
  • compose
  • cool out
  • decrease
  • ease
  • lessen
  • lighten
  • make nice
  • mitigate
  • moderate
  • mollify
  • brilliance
  • burnish
  • finish
  • glaze
  • glint
  • gloss
  • luster
  • sheen
  • smoothness
  • sparkle
  • varnish
  • veneer
  • wax
  • advertise
  • advocate
  • aid
  • assist
  • avail
  • back
  • befriend
  • benefit
  • bolster
  • boost
  • build up
  • call attention to
  • champion
  • contribute
  • clarify
  • cleanse
  • distill
  • filter
  • process
  • rarefy
  • strain
  • allure
  • ask in marriage
  • attract
  • beseech
  • bid
  • bootlick
  • captivate
  • charm
  • chase
  • cultivate
  • curry favor
  • date
  • entice
  • entreat
  • advance
  • ameliorate
  • better
  • bolster
  • bring on
  • brownnose
  • butter up
  • cherish
  • civilize
  • court
  • develop
  • discipline
  • elevate
  • encourage
  • advance
  • ameliorate
  • better
  • bolster
  • bring on
  • brownnose
  • butter up
  • cherish
  • civilize
  • court
  • develop
  • discipline
  • elevate
  • encourage
  • apple-polish
  • back-scratch
  • bootlick
  • curry favor
  • fawn on
  • flatter
  • get on the right side of
  • kiss ass
  • scratch one's back
  • toady
  • advance
  • ameliorate
  • better
  • bolster
  • bring on
  • brownnose
  • butter up
  • cherish
  • civilize
  • court
  • develop
  • discipline
  • elevate
  • encourage
  • alternation
  • appendage
  • caravan
  • chain
  • column
  • concatenation
  • consecution
  • convoy
  • cortege
  • course
  • court
  • entourage
  • file
  • following

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