Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Perform
Perform verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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To avoid prison time for this, she agreed to perform "community services" at the diner.
Source: Film / A Cinderella Story -
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 -
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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Perform and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2023, March 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/perform
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Perform or Avoid. 2016. Accessed March 27, 2023. https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/perform.
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