Divert
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To turn aside from a course. To distract.
Example sentence: I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.
Amuse
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.To cause laughter, to be funny., To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.To fling dust or snuff in the eyes of the person intended to be robbed; also to invent some plausible tale, to delude shop-keepers and others, thereby to put them off their guard. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)
Example sentence: Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.