instruction:
Generate an overlapping word between the given two sentences. When you find the overlapping words, they don't have to match exactly, e.g., "survival" and "survive" are valid overlapping words. Little words like "the" or "of" don't count! You must generate significant words which are not the stop words.
question:
Sentence1: Endospores are commonly found in soil and water. 
Sentence2: Some bacteria form resistant cells called endospores.
answer:
Endospores


question:
Sentence1: Some pelycosaurs gave rise to a group of animals called therapsids. 
Sentence2: Like most other groups of synapsids, all pelycosaurs are now extinct.
answer:
pelycosaurs


question:
Sentence1: Torrential rain and high tides caused flooding in coastal areas and damaged beachfront homes. 
Sentence2: The gravitational pull of the moon on Earth's oceans causes flooding and damaged homes.
answer:

damaged