adopt(TAKE INTO HOME)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parenting & caring for children
adopt
adoptable
adopted
adoptee
adoption
caretaking
child-rearing
childless
childlessness
childmind
kinship care
kinship carer
lawnmower parent
looked-after
milestone
skin to skinidiom
snowploughing
stay-at-home
swaddle
unadoptable

fosterverb (ENCOURAGE)

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to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings: 鼓励；促进；培养
foster something in someoneI'm trying to foster an interest in classical music in my children.我正努力培养我的孩子们对古典音乐的兴趣。
They were discussing the best way to foster democracy and prosperity in the former communist countries.他们正在讨论促进前共产主义国家民主和繁荣的最佳办法。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Encouraging and urging on
abet
barrack for someone
bread
bring
bring someone out
cultivate
get in there!idiom
get out of here!idiom
go on
good/great/lovely stuff!idiom
goose
muster
pave
pave the wayidiom
pep talk
permit
prepare
spur
stimulus
stoke

Examples of fostered

fostered

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

They fostered a strong sense of community, and of belonging to some particular group.
A climate of reductionism fostered the development of technologies that were applied to physiology and to the study of the nervous system.
The new elites of the cities also fostered alliances with elites in other areas, for example, with the landed elites in the countryside.
Environmental policy, fostered by international agreements, gives a better explanation why pollution curbs downward at high income levels.
For the most part, these measures failed to meet the expectations which they fostered.
Moreover, the three-party balance fostered coalition government, making it especially difficult for presidents to pass legislation that would strip the judiciary of its autonomy.
Such team sports fostered male camaraderie and sociability.
There was even less evidence that these organisations fostered democracy since they were highly personalised with no clear internal democratic procedures.
From this perspective, surely they do more than play into the vision of business as usual that is usually fostered by postmodernism?
This considerable legacy of handwritten scores, albeit a product of necessity rather than choice, fostered its own special culture.
What is learner autonomy and how can it be fostered?
Speculating further, is it also possible that some learners cope more easily than others with the task of becoming bilingual, fostered by their neuropsychological makeup?
It fostered reflection in the audience and avoided ' ' the emphatic flood which a realistic portrayal of the same tale and character might unloose.
This, in turn, has fostered a therapeutic language of need.
Were that the case, one might again expect genes that fostered fixed mating strategies as well as facultative ones.
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