Affect and Shape

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

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Shape is a synonym for affect in change topic. In some cases you can use "Shape" instead a verb "Affect".

Shape verb - To change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation.

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Affect is a synonym for shape in form topic. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Shape", if it concerns topics such as influence.

Nearby Words: shaped, shapeless, shapely, shaping

mind	affect mind	shape mind
character	affect character	shape character
life	affect life	shape life
people	affect people	shape people
Other words: body, appearance, plot, rest, environment, future, development, way, personality, world, history, reality, events, powers, lives.

Blue and Yellow, hope and fear respectively, represent how you can use the emotions to affect and shape the world.

Source: Order Versus Chaos
The thought and personal beliefs of the mage affect and shape magic.

Source: A Master Makes Their Own Tools
Players can change the skin of their characters to look like anything imaginable including female characters but they will always retain the same blocky human shape and changing the skin doesn't affect anything else in the game.

Source: Purely Aesthetic Gender

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