INSPIRES Synonyms

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• stop sleeping

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to become awake or conscious

• to begin moving

• to evoke sexual feelings

• give or delegate power or authority to

• give qualities or abilities to

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

• spur on

• cause to be alert and energetic

• raise to a higher energy level

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• call to mind

• arouse or elicit a feeling

• act as a stimulant

• stir feelings in

• cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

• to evoke sexual feelings

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• raise to a higher energy level

• produce a magnetic field in

• to stimulate to action

• cover with zinc

• stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock

• cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat

• start to burn or burst into flames

• arouse or excite feelings and passions

• start or maintain a fire in

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• cause to move forward with force

• give an incentive for action

• provoke or stir up

• urge on; cause to act

• provoke or stir up

• serve as the inciting cause of

• heighten or intensify

• give life or energy to

• make lively

• impart vigor, strength, or vitality to

• catch fire

• cause to start burning

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• give an incentive for action

• cause to move forward with force

• give an incentive for action

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• provide the needed stimulus for

• annoy continually or chronically

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• act as a stimulant

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to occur rapidly

• stir feelings in

• provide the needed stimulus for

• belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings

• endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

• endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

• heighten or intensify

• give lifelike qualities to

• make lively

• give new life or energy to