Grow
Realize
Realize verb - To come to an awareness of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Half of the job of the Justice League (notably Cyborg) is trying to get him to grow up and realize how much good he can do with his powers instead of creating ping pong tables from thin air.
Source: Ideal Hero - After dousing himself with it in a panic, he realize all to late that it takes longer for the tonic to grow hair on a human, and it turns him into a werewolf.
Source: Never Trust a Hair Tonic - Katara points out many, many acorns everywhere, and they all realize that the forest will grow back eventually.
Source: Hope Sprouts Eternal
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