Avoid and Perform

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Avoid

Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
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Synonyms for Avoid
Antonyms for Avoid
Perform is an antonym for avoid.
Nearby Words: avoided, avoidance, avoidable, avoiding, avoidably

Perform

Perform verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
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Synonyms for Perform
Antonyms for Perform
Avoid is an antonym for perform in carry out topic.
Nearby Words: performance, performed, performing, performer
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Common collocations

work avoid work perform work
attack avoid attack perform attack
kind avoid kind perform kind
time avoid time perform time
Other words: attacks.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / A Cinderella Story To avoid prison time for this, she agreed to perform "community services" at the diner.
    Source: Film / A Cinderella Story
  • Literature / Little Women Love Potion: The sisters perform a play with a villain who purchases a love potion from a witch, along with poison to kill his romantic rival (probably to avoid that "power of true love" loophole).
    Source: Literature / Little Women
  • Video Game / Gray Matter Stage Names: Magicians in general use stage names whenever they perform and seemingly avoid giving anyone their real name, such as the case with Mephistopheles.
    Source: Video Game / Gray Matter
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