Affect and Require

Affect

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

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Require and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Require" instead a verb "Affect".

Require verb - To have as a requirement.

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Affect and require are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Require".

person	affect person	require person
ability	affect ability	require ability
character	affect character	require character
work	affect work	require work
Other words: people, someone, number, time, characters, level, player, skills, abilities.

In Unknown Armies rituals and Tilts (sort of a makeshift ritual) usually require something from the person you are trying to affect.

Source: Sympathetic Magic
Certain needs that actual sex would require, but would affect the pacing of the sex/story.

Source: Anatomically Impossible Sex
Gods of death can create slabs engraved with knowledge about necromancy, but they still require a worshipper to whom to bestow this slab, and thus to affect the world.

Source: Video Game / Dwarf Fortress

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