Cook
Cook verb - To change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of.
Light
Light verb - To set (something) on fire.
Usage example: we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Another commercial had a guy's wife cook a fancy dinner, dress up, and light candles.
Source: Forgotten Anniversary - Cook's The Black Company novels start light while the Company is in the north, then runs with this trope when they get to Taglios.
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Roger also doesn't like it when he cannot cook a thing on the grill after he, in his own words, nearly killed himself trying to light it.
Source: Grilling Pyrotechnics
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