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Definition
grant a favor to someone
- Peeta's happy to oblige and since he's a lot quieter in water than on land, it's a doubly good idea.p. 323.1
oblige = be helpful
- And I come to know Rue, the oldest of six kids, fiercely protective of her siblings, who gives her rations to the younger ones, who forages in the meadows in a district where the Peacekeepers are far less obliging than ours.p. 211.8
obliging = nice or helpful
There are no more uses of "oblige" in The Hunger Games.
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