Affect and Seem

Affect

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

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

Seem verb - To give the impression of being.

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Affect and seem are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Seem".

Nearby Words: seeming, seemingly

ability	affect ability	seem ability
life	affect life	seem life
people	affect people	seem people
relationship	affect relationship	seem relationship
Other words: appearance, time, way, characters, level, personality, game, anyone, everyone, humans, powers, abilities.

Despite this, their loss of citizenship doesn't seem to affect the Nameless members that much, and in fact they seem to do well with their lives.

Source: Video Game / Valkyria Chronicles III
Sunlight doesn't kill them, though it appears to affect them to an extent (protagonist Kojou apparently feels unconfortable under sunlight, though it doesn't seem to affect him otherwise).

Source: Our Vampires Are Different / Anime and Manga
Similarly, the Twilight in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess turns normal humans into spirits, Link into a wolf, and does not seem to affect magic-users.

Source: Was Once a Man

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