Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Recruit
Recruit verb - To provide with a paying job.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In Detective Conan, Conan frequently has to recruit others to play his 17-year-old self, Shinichi, to avoid suspicion by Ran.
Source: Emergency Impersonation - In the case of Spiral you must defeat her once in Scenario 1, then avoid killing her in the second battle, so you can recruit her in Scenario 2.
Source: Defeat Means Playable -
Soul Eater - Lord Death had a simple skull-shaped mask he made to deliberately avoid looking scary to the small children he wanted to recruit to his school.
Source: White Mask of Doom
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