Aid
Aid verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Plague
Plague verb - To cause persistent suffering to.
Usage example: plagued by a cough for all of last week
How words are described
| specific | specific aid | specific plague |
| artificial | artificial aid | artificial plague |
| actual | actual aid | actual plague |
| real | real aid | real plague |
| Other adjectives: massive, civil, supernatural, general, said, magical. | ||
Common collocations
| humanity | aid humanity | plague humanity |
| character | aid character | plague character |
| hero | aid hero | plague hero |
| mankind | aid mankind | plague mankind |
| Other words: children, organization, characters, earth, anyone, humans, heroes, protagonists. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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World War Z The crew of the International Space Station are unaffected by the zombie plague and aid the resistance on Earth by keeping communications satellites functioning.
Source: But What About the Astronauts? -
When a plague was killing them, they were too proud to seek aid from Thundera and sought help from the Ancient Spirits (of Evil) instead.
Source: Pride - This is later exploited by Rong Lang when he claims the Emperor was behind the plague that slew Shan's clan, and was oppressing the snow leopards, to get him to aid in the coup.
Source: Fan Fic / Memoirs Of A Master
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