Affecting and Echoing

verb

• Have an effect upon.
  • usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
  • synonyms: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
• Act physically on; have an effect upon.
  • usage: "the medicine affects my heart rate"
  • synonyms: affect
• Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
  • usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
  • synonyms: involve, affect, regard
• Make believe with the intent to deceive.
  • usage: "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  • synonyms: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
• Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
  • usage: "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
  • synonyms: affect, impress, move, strike

adjective

• Arousing affect.
  • usage: "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"
  • synonyms: poignant, touching

• (a.) Affected; given to false show.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Affect.
• (a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.

verb

• To say again or imitate.
  • usage: "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"
  • synonyms: repeat, echo
• Ring or echo with sound.
  • usage: "the hall resounded with laughter"
  • synonyms: resound, echo, ring, reverberate
• Call to mind.
  • usage: "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
  • synonyms: echo, recall

adjective

• Of sounds. ( repeating by reflection)
  • usage: "a hotel with echoing halls"
  • synonyms: reechoing