Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Pay attention is an antonym for avoid.
Pay attention
Both terms in one sentence
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A Kuei-jin who wants to avoid Chi imbalance will need to pay attention to those emotions.
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Easy to avoid if you actually pay attention to the conversation leading up to it, minimizing the number of times palpation is done to 1.
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Partly because it sounds like a cough, partly because none of the teachers will pay attention to her if they can avoid it.
Source: Ahem
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