✅ Alleviate means to make something easier to endure or deal with, or to lessen it (alleviate the pain).

✅ Assuage means to make something less severe, or to ease it (assuage his distress).

✅ Alleviate and assuage both refer to mitigating or easing difficult emotions or physical feelings.

✅ Alleviate particularly suggests taking away all or part of a certain feeling or emotion (The update alleviated my concerns), whereas assuage particularly suggests soothing a feeling, sensation or emotion (Seeing all the flowers blooming assuaged their sorrow).

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✅ Strangely refers to something happening in an unusual, odd, or weird way (The leaf was strangely colorful; The door creaked strangely).

✅ Peculiarly refers to something happening in a way that is out of the ordinary (The house was peculiarly quiet).

✅ Peculiarly can imply that something happening feels supernatural or excessively strange, emphasizing the idea that it is happening in a way that is different from normal (He was peculiarly subdued at his birthday party).

✅ Strangely can also suggest this, but it also suggests things happening in an unexpected or odd way (The dream was strangely vivid).

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✅ Avoid means to keep away from someone or something (avoid a nosy aunt; avoid danger).

✅ Sidestep means to dodge or avoid something, either by or as if stepping aside (sidestep responsibility; sidestep the issue entirely).

✅ Avoid and sidestep both mean to keep clear of something.

✅ Avoid is the more general word, and sidestep specifically suggests narrowly avoiding something.

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