Interested
Interested adjective - Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern.
Lit and interested are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lit" instead a noun "Interested".
Lit
Lit noun - The humanistic study of a body of literature.
Interested and lit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Interested" instead a noun "Lit".
Both words in one sentence
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You see, you have to care if the smokin' hot lit teacher seems a little too interested in his female students.
- Batman: Black Mask was already a murderous gangster, but when he was lit on fire and left for dead, the resulting burns and further disfigurements got him interested in the subject of torture.
Source: Being Tortured Makes You Evil -
Subverted and averted in The Lost Boys: a disposable couple of characters are in a red-lit car, the man making advances towards the woman (who is amusingly more interested in reading comics) when a bunch of vampires shows up and, well, the obvious happens...
Source: Auto Erotica
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