React and Affect

verb

• Show a response or a reaction to something.
  • synonyms: respond
• Act against or in opposition to.
  • usage: "She reacts negatively to everything I say"
  • synonyms: oppose
• Undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions.
  • usage: "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

• (v.t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
• (v.i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
• (v.i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

noun

• The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.

verb

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

• (v.t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
• (v.t.) To love; to regard with affection.
• (v.t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
• (v.t.) To assign; to appoint.
• (v.t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
• (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
• (v.t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
• (v.t.) To dispose or incline.
• (v.t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• (v.t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
• (n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.