Word of the Day: FOSTER

To support, sustain, or spur on

foster (verb) - to nurture or encourage; to raise or bring up with care as a guardian [fos-ter]

BREAKDOWN: FO- (feed, protect) + -STER (one who does)

• foster as an adjective describes a child temporarily placed in the care and guardianship of a home or designated individual filling a parental role

"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." —Jorge Luis Borges