mindmap root((支持)) support is lease explicit about the nature of the assistance given: people who ~ the development of the area. uphold implies extended support given to something attacked: ~ the legitimacy of the military action. advocate stresses a verbal urging or pleading: ~d a return to basics in public school education. back suggests a supporting by lending assistance to one failing or falling: allies refused to ~ the call for sanctions. champion suggests the public defending of those who are unjustly attacked or too weak to advocate their own cause: ~ed the rights of pregnant women.