Stir up
Stir up verb - Arouse or excite feelings and passions.
Usage example: The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world
Wake
Wake verb - Arouse or excite feelings and passions.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Played with in a short story in Fear Itself: The Home Front, in which a bunch of white racists try and stir up American Eagle's neighbors by posing as Native American spirits in the wake of the murder of a white local sheriff.
Source: Peace Pipe
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