persist
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～ continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
persist
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～ be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
persist
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～ stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
personalise
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～ make personal or more personal; "personalized service"
personalize
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～ make personal or more personal; "personalized service"
personate
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～ pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
personate
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～ attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
personify
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～ represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
personify
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～ attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
personify
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～ invest with or as with a body; give body to
perspire
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～ excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat"
persuade
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～ cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm; "You can't persuade me to buy this ugly vase!"
persuade
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～ win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters"
pertain
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～ be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
pertain
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～ be a part or attribute of
perturb
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～ cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
perturb
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～ disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
perturb
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～ disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
perturb
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～ throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order"
peruse
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～ examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure"