Affect and Impress

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Affect

Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

Usage example: their son claims that scary movies don't affect him in the least

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Impress is a synonym for affect in influence topic. In some cases you can use "Impress" instead a verb "Affect", when it comes to topics like feeling, touch, effect, sway. popular alternative

Nearby Words: affected, affection, affectation, affecting, affective

Impress

Impress verb - Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.

Usage example: This child impressed me as unusually mature

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Affect is a synonym for impress in influence topic. You can use "Affect" instead a verb "Impress", if it concerns topics such as feeling, touch, effect, sway. popular alternative

Nearby Words: impression, impressive, impressed, impressible, impressively

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people	affect people	impress people
someone	affect someone	impress someone
characters	affect characters	impress characters
world	affect world	impress world
Other words: anyone, everyone.

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Only partially justified by being vampiric, as this does not seem to affect the Friendly Neighborhood Vampires to an extent that the author would feel a need to impress it upon the reader.

Source: Blood Lust

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