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| NOUN: | Something that causes and encourages a given response: encouragement, fillip, impetus, impulse, incentive, inducement, motivation, push, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulator, stimulus. See CAUSE. | | VERB: | 1. To thrust against or into: dig, jab, jog, nudge, poke. See TOUCH. 2. To stir to action or feeling: egg on, excite, foment, galvanize, goad, impel, incite, inflame, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, pique, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, set off, spur, stimulate, touch off, trigger, work up. See CAUSE, EXCITE.
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