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interest, interests, interested, interesting (verbs)
1. To cause someone to want to learn more about something or to become involved in something: "Military history interests me and so that's why I have so many books about this subject."
"It interested him to know that she once lived in Paris, France, too."
2. To persuade a person to have, to take, or to participate in something: "The salesman tried to interest her in a more expensive computer.""The story in the book was interesting the children more and more as the father read to them."
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interesting (adjective)
Attracting people's attention and making them want to learn more about something or to be involved in something that is not dull or boring: "The speaker presented some very interesting reasons as to why there are so many problems with our current economic conditions."
"This culture has an interesting history and so these sutdents want to learn more about it."
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(Latin: to be dry; lacking enough water for things to grow, dry and barren; by extension, not interesting, lifeless, dull)
(Arabic: the gift of finding interesting things by chance; the faculty of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; an apparent talent for making fortunate discoveries accidentally)