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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

a verb to use with interest

Hello,
I am kind of wondering which verb would collocate best with interest:
- The President's visit...a lot of interest in the area.
I think I'd use sparkled, gave rise to (that's probably odd), sparked off, aroused (people don't like it Emotion: big smile), I was thinking of "caused" but it apparently it sounds bad. What's most common?
  

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Probably "generated" would be most common. Gene93 sparkled Probably just finger trouble, but I think you mean "sparked".

— GPY

  • Probably "generated" would be most common.
  • Gene93 sparkled Probably just finger trouble, but I think you mean "sparked".
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Probably "generated" would be most common.
Gene93sparkled
Probably just finger trouble, but I think you mean "sparked".
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GPY"sparked
That's the one. Are the other ones acceptable in everyday speech?

Thank you, GPY
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Gene93Are the other ones acceptable in everyday speech?
Yes. I don't know why anyone would object to "aroused", especially. "caused" is probably the weakest of the ones mentioned.
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"Caused" sounds odd even in my native language, that's why I don't like it. A friend of mine suggested "created", but it doesn't sound good to me. Opinions will vary.
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The difference is quite obvious. Do you think that Ngram is reliable when wondering which word to choose? It says that "create" is also quite common in that collocation. Is that true?
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Gene93The difference is quite obvious. Do you think that Ngram is reliable when wondering which word to choose?
I think it is usually reliable in discriminating common from rare. How much the finer distinctions mean, and how much is just noise, I really don't know. Below a certain point perhaps the noise predominates. Also, it obviously it cannot suggest new p
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