Affect
Affect verb - To present a false appearance of.
Usage example: she affected complete unawareness that we were talking about her, though she must have overheard
Mask
Mask verb - To change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity.
Usage example: the federal agents masked their surveillance vehicle so that it looked like an ordinary moving van
Common collocations
| work | affect work | mask work |
| appearance | affect appearance | mask appearance |
| plot | affect plot | mask plot |
| number | affect number | mask number |
| Other words: time, way, personality, accent, voice. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Granted, the change to vampire for those that used the stone mask doesn't seem to affect their morality much, as most of them were already psychotic or power-hungry.
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They wear their default "Classic" mask all the time, even outside of combat, which gives them health-stealing attacks and an area-of-affect shielding spell.
Source: Cool Mask -
Chekhov's Skill: Emp's embarrassing and apparently useless parlor trick of turning her suit invisible is demonstrated in a one-off story from the first volume (she is not affected, cannot wear anything over or under it, and was trying to affect only her mask instead of everything but).
Source: Comic Book / Empowered
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