Care
Care noun - Strict attentiveness to what one is doing.
Task
Task noun - A piece of work that needs to be done regularly.
Usage example: one of my tasks in the morning is to make lunches for everyone in the family
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How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Taking care of sextuplet daughters is no easy task, yeah, but Ty Lee herself felt so neglected that she ran away to a circus to get something similar to love and affection.
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Red Shirt: The waiter in "Apocalypse Not", who even protests that he's not going to perform a dangerous task instead of the main characters, because he's a one-shot and nobody will care if he dies.
Source: Western Animation / Duckman - A subplot in the episode "Hell on Earth 2006" involves real life serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer taking care of a task.
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