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Synonyms for arouse

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Synonyms for arouse

to cease sleeping

to induce or elicit (a reaction or emotion)

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She is unaware or her difference until she overhears a conversation that makes her suddenly conscious of her race and the prejudice it arouses. A bestseller in the 1820s, it was translated by John Fowles and is the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist.
Although micro-editing is easier (after all, these are the things you notice first) than macro-editing (tackling the structure, meaning or tone of the entire document), micro-editing antagonizes the writer and arouses anger and defensiveness.
Bruce Davidson's new book, Time of Change, a collection of 140 photographs during the Civil Rights era, arouses same deep, fervent emotions.
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It is the demand that we do something about the event that arouses our bodies and produces feelings--or what we call emotions--and, if we do not restrain ourselves, usually produces detestable behavior.
The ex-gay movement arouses among many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, like me, as much compassion as its blatant lies arouse anger.