Show
Show verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.
Usage example: showed me how to play the guitar
Teach is a synonym for show in demonstrate topic. In some cases you can use "Teach" instead a verb "Show", when it comes to topics like passively exhibit something.
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Both words in one sentence
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When someone knows something he doesn't, they can literally steal the show and teach Adam something he doesn't want to know.
Source: Series / Adam Ruins Everything -
Well, sure if you want to scare them for life, shove their hearts into a woodchipper, confuse them to an overwhelming extreme, or show/teach them words or other things they really shouldn't know yet.
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One class involves his dressing up as Devilman to teach a lesson about sociology, only to give up halfway through and show the kids how to shoot bottle rockets out of their homeroom window instead.
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