What could be a better word, to replace the word exist?

Make do would be a good one or manage

Explanation:

1.

have objective reality or being.

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live

be alive

be living

have life

breathe

draw breath

be

have being

have existence

be extant

be found, especially in a particular place or situation.

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prevail

occur

be found

be met with

be in existence

remain

obtain

continue

last

endure

be the case

2.

live, especially under adverse conditions.

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survive

subsist

live

stay alive

support oneself

eke out a living

eke out an existence

manage

make do

keep going

struggle along

scrape by

keep one's head above water

make ends meet

get by

keep the wolf from the door

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.