Get up
Get up verb - To call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers.
Usage example: I'm still trying to get up the energy to reply
Raise
Raise verb - Raise from a lower to a higher position.
Usage example: Raise your hands
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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In Glee the kids who are not on the Glist get up to all sorts to try to raise their profile and get on to the list despite the Glist not really being a list most people would like to be on.
Source: No Such Thing as Bad Publicity - Also, in Chamber of Secrets Tom Riddle recalls Hagrid getting in trouble for "trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed." This might have been untrue, since werewolves in Potter Verse have human babies, not cubs, but one wonders what Hagrid really did get up to.
Source: Noodle Incident / Literature
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