NSW Selective & Scholarship
Agitate
verb/AJ-ih-tate/
To make someone worried or upset, or to shake something about.
In contextYou must agitate the mixture so the sand does not settle.
Remember it
AGITATE is what an 'agitator' in a washing machine does: shakes things up.
Use it well
Use for stirring up worry in people or physically shaking a liquid.