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PROMPT

prompt, prompting - n 
a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting" 

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Synonyms

beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield

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Examples

“Bearing this in mind, you can easily see restaurant portions of meat far exceed this amount, which may prompt you to make changes to your diet.”

“She crossed and uncrossed her legs, studied her fingernails and finally decided to prompt him again.”

“While I was dumbfounded, inherent pragmatism caused me to further prompt.”

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Etymology

mid-14c., prompten, "to incite to action, urge," from the adjective or from Latin promptus, past participle of promere "to bring forth," from pro "forward" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward") + emere "to take" (from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute").

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