curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-have-a-conversation-about-preferences-and-motivations/6581a32ee97531393b34b783.md
Encourage means to give someone support or confidence to do something. For example, when your friend says, You can solve this coding problem! they are encouraging you.
Discourage is the opposite; it means to make someone feel less confident or less likely to do something. If that friend says, That programming language is too hard for beginners, it might discourage you from learning it.
Discouraging describes something that makes you feel discouraged. Like, Finding a bug in your code after hours of work can be discouraging.
Encouraging is when something gives you courage or hope. For example, Getting your first program to run is very encouraging.
I hear you, Tom. BLANK in meetings for hours can be BLANK.
Sitting
This word describes the action of being seated. It is capitalized.
discouraging
This word means something that makes you feel less confident or willing to continue. It ends in -ing, showing it's describing the effect of the action.
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