prompting

Meanings

• Noun or Verb

  An act or instance of encouraging or incentivizing someone to perform an action.

  - "The teacher gave the students a prompting question to stimulate their thinking."
  - "The salesperson used a prompting offer to close the deal."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with prompting
hymes , crimes , chimes

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Variants

List of all variants of prompting that leads to same result
prompt , prompted , prompter , prompters , prompting , promptings , prompts

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Etymology

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Derived from the Latin word 'promptus', meaning ready or prepared.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'prompting' appears in the title of a popular 1985 comedy film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sally Struthers.

2. In ancient Greece, actors were prompted by a chorus or by a member of the audience when it was their turn to speak their lines.

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Related Concepts

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1. Encouragement: The act of giving someone support, confidence, or motivation to do something.

2. Incentive: Something that motivates or encourages someone to do something, especially a financial or material reward.

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Culture

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In literature, 'prompting' is often used to describe a character or situation that encourages or inspires another character to take action. In theater, a prompt book is used by an assistant stage manager to provide actors with their cues.

How to Memorize "prompting"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a teacher standing at the front of a classroom, holding up a question for the students to see.
   - Visualize a salesperson offering a discount to a customer to close a sale.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'prompting' with the idea of encouragement or motivation.
   - Think of a prompting question as a question that stimulates thought or action.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by associating the word 'prompting' with the word 'encouragement'.
   - Use the acronym P-R-O-M-P-T-I-N-G to remember the definition: Provide Reasonable Opportunities for Motivated Performance and Timely Intervention.

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