Incite
Incite verb - To bring (something volatile or intense) into being.
Nearby Words: incitement, inciting
Wake
Wake verb - To cause to stop sleeping.
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Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The cost of victory in the first game is so high that the leader of the American forces, General Shepherd, becomes completely disillusioned and allies himself with a Russian extremist in order to incite war against his own country just to wake them up to what they've let themselves become.
Source: Pyrrhic Victory - The level is scattered around with bushes and trees to make it prettier - except that some of those bushes suddenly come to life and eat you if you get too close, and some of the trees wake up and shake their branches to incite the bees in a beehive to sting you.
Source: Suddenly Harmful Harmless Object
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