Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Make peace and avoid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Make peace" instead a verb "Avoid".
Make peace
Make peace verb - End hostilities.
Avoid and make peace are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Avoid" instead a verb phrase "Make peace".
Both terms in one sentence
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An Aesop: Lythande sometimes tries to deliver Aesops to the hirers, such as telling a farmer he must make peace with his neighbors to avoid being cursed again, and is sometimes the one being taught by the experience.
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The Junta wanted to resist because it thought that the USA were so afraid of its people dying trying to take the Home islands (and thus being voted out of power) that they would make peace with The Junta to avoid that.
- Revenge Before Reason: Elizabeth Woodville refused to make peace with George because he and Warwick killed her father and brother despite the fact reconciliation with George can avoid another civil war.
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