sucker, succor

Sucker or sucker means a shoot growing from the underground stem or root of a plant--
You can use the sucker to start a new plant; just put the end of it in some dirt.
When the plant sends out a sucker, root it in some dirt.

Sucker may also mean a type of freshwater fish--
See the sucker stuck to the side of the tank?
He only caught one fish, a small sucker.

Sucker may mean a lollipop--
She dropped her sucker; wash it off and give it back to her.
Grandpa always brings a sucker when he comes to visit.

Sucker may mean a chump or dupe; someone easily cheated or deceived--
He never knew she'd been cheating; what a sucker.
That's a scam; don't be a sucker.

Sucker may mean a body or machine part adapted or made for sucking--
He has a little sucker on the end of each leg, so he can walk upside down.
The sucker on this pump is broken; we'll have to have it repaired.

Succor or succor ( rhymes with sucker ) means help or aid; assistance--
The new shelter will give succor to our neediest citizens.
People from all over reached out to offer succor to the victims of the disaster.

Succor may also mean to help or aid; to offer assistance--
He left this money to succor the poor, not to found an organization.
He had hoped to succor a maiden in distress, but he changed the old man's tire, anyway.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He offered succor to the crying child in the form of a bright red sucker."