Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Compliment or complement

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Compliment or complement: A compliment is praise given to your lover in hopes of the rewards of love. You may complement a collection of objects by making it complete, or add an item to some others for the same reason.
'Frank was apt to flirt with the girls and compliment them on their figures and appearance in the hope that they would favour him with, well, favours.'
'Jesse brought in a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon to complement the meal of roast beef.' 
15 June 1996 – Central Manchester was bombed by Irish dissidents. Another example, fortunately now well past, of idiots believing they can achieve their unpopular aims by terrorizing populations indiscriminately. Terrorists rarely actually achieve anything that couldn't be better changed by normal, if slow, democratic processes. And when governments and journalists dress up the activity of such sociopaths by referring to mass murder as something other than what it is, they aid the terrorists.