Affecting and Mastering

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.

noun

• Becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of.
  • usage: "his mastering the art of cooking took a long time"
• The act of making a master recording from which copies can be made.
  • usage: "he received a bill for mastering the concert and making 100 copies"

verb

• Be or become completely proficient or skilled in.
  • usage: "She mastered Japanese in less than two years"
  • synonyms: master, get the hang
• Get on top of; deal with successfully.
  • usage: "He overcame his shyness"
  • synonyms: overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master
• Have dominance or the power to defeat over.
  • usage: "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems"
  • synonyms: dominate, master
• Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of.
  • usage: "Do you control these data"
  • synonyms: master, control