Animate
Animate adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Usage example: an animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping
Dead
Dead adjective - No longer living.
Usage example: I inherited this heirloom from my dead great-grandfather
Nearby Word: deadly
Both words in one sentence
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Similar masks are used by Bloodspeakers to animate zombies from the bodies of the dead.
Source: White Mask of Doom -
In Mortasheen, the fungus creature Mushtomb has this power, spreading its slimy spores on dead tissue to animate it to follow its every whim.
Source: Animate Dead -
Most of them are even animate at some point, due to the main character's ability to let the spirits of the dead briefly animate their own bodies.
Source: Not Using the "Z" Word
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