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S: (v) elate (elate%2:37:00::), lift up (lift_up%2:37:00::), uplift (uplift%2:37:00::), pick up (pick_up%2:37:00::), intoxicate (intoxicate%2:37:00::) (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism) "Music can uplift your spirits"

S: (v) stimulate (stimulate%2:37:00::), shake (shake%2:37:00::), shake up (shake_up%2:37:00::), excite (excite%2:37:00::), stir (stir%2:37:01::) (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of) "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

S: (v) fuel (fuel%2:37:00::) (stimulate) "fuel the debate on creationism"
S: (v) arouse (arouse%2:37:01::), sex (sex%2:37:00::), excite (excite%2:37:01::), turn on (turn_on%2:37:00::), wind up (wind_up%2:37:00::) (stimulate sexually) "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
S: (v) frighten (frighten%2:37:00::), fright (fright%2:37:00::), scare (scare%2:37:00::), affright (affright%2:37:00::) (cause fear in) "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
S: (v) thrill (thrill%2:37:02::), tickle (tickle%2:37:01::), vibrate (vibrate%2:37:02::) (feel sudden intense sensation or emotion) "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine"
S: (v) tempt (tempt%2:37:00::), invite (invite%2:37:00::) (give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting) "the window displays tempted the shoppers"
S: (v) elate (elate%2:37:00::), lift up (lift_up%2:37:00::), uplift (uplift%2:37:00::), pick up (pick_up%2:37:00::), intoxicate (intoxicate%2:37:00::) (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism) "Music can uplift your spirits"
S: (v) inspire (inspire%2:37:00::), animate (animate%2:37:00::), invigorate (invigorate%2:37:00::), enliven (enliven%2:37:00::), exalt (exalt%2:37:00::) (heighten or intensify) "These paintings exalt the imagination"
S: (v) titillate (titillate%2:37:00::) (excite pleasurably or erotically) "A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine"

S: (v) intoxicate (intoxicate%2:34:00::), soak (soak%2:34:01::), inebriate (inebriate%2:34:01::) (make drunk (with alcoholic drinks))
S: (v) intoxicate (intoxicate%2:29:00::) (have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug)