When students are younger(primary three and four), many like to end compositions with the fact that their main characters are praised or scolded in the end. What other ways can we express the same feelings, without using those two words over and over again?
Well, we can say that elders commended the person for doing the right thing, or that parents / a parent (either father or mother) complimented the person for doing well. Another way is to say that he /she was given a pat on the back, or lauded for doing the right thing.
On the other hand, they could be berated for being mischievous (note the spelling of this word!), chided, castigated, rebuked, admonished or reprimanded. We could say that someone was given the cold shoulder or rebuffed too.
Why are there more words to scold than to praise? Beats me! It is just so 'world-ly' that we nit-pick than to praise others, isn't it so?
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