Achieve and Keep

Achieve

Achieve verb - To obtain (as a goal) through effort.

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Keep and achieve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Achieve".

Keep verb - To do what is required by the terms of.

Usage example: make sure you keep your promise to help out at the homeless shelter

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Achieve and keep are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Achieve" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

power	achieve power	keep power
life	achieve life	keep life
balance	achieve balance	keep balance
peace	achieve peace	keep peace
Other words: control, time, way, powers, levels.

Since the faster you go the move force you need to keep accelerating, those ships should not have been able to achieve speeds sufficient to be able to scout far ahead of the planets.

Source: Literature / Terre En Fuite
Backtracking: You go through Soma Temple's upper sector three times, and late in-game, you need to keep revisiting cities to achieve similar events again and again.

Source: Video Game / Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals
If you want to achieve the romance, you pretty much have to keep pushing her and pushing her, regardless of how many times she turns you down.

Source: Dogged Nice Guy

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