Assist and Work on

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Assist verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Work on is an antonym for assist.

Work on verb - To exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something.

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Assist is an antonym for work on in topics: bother, demand, pressure, nag, harass.

Padawan Bariss Offee is assigned to a fetid swamp of a world to assist the doctors there; they work on the clones who fight the droids over the bota supply that only grows on this planet.

Source: Epiphanic Prison

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