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accept in English:

1. refuse refuse


She will probably refuse to follow his advice, because she doesn't like him.
Tom didn't have the courage to refuse to do what Mary asked him to do.
Never choose a vocation just because your friends are in it, nor refuse another just because your worst enemy is in it.
Don't refuse me.
Most people will refuse to admit they've made a mistake.
This noise is something which I refuse to put up with.
When Sony came back with a 2 billion bid, CBS could not refuse.
When children are ordered to do a certain thing by such adult standards, they frequently refuse to follow the instructions for no other reason than that they have been told to do so.
1. That's an offer I can't refuse. / 2. You know I can't refuse you anything.
The head teacher refused the students permission to have a party in the school hall.
(turn) My neighbour refused ... down the music and I had to call the police.
Even if they refuse, you can take a bottle of good wine with you.
no business will refuse to supply a good customer. she refused a cigarette
His request was refused.
She may well refuse to speak to you because she's in a very bad mood.

English word "accept"(refuse) occurs in sets:

Przeciwieństwa + słowka (karta pracy)

2. face up to face up to


you must face up to reality
You have to face up to your responsibilities.
(inseparable): admit to; take responsibility for; "You can't pretend that you're doing OK in this course, Joe. Sooner or later, you'll have to face up to the fact that you're failing it."
Soon we will have to face up to many problems.
Susan will have to face up to many problems. I'm afraid we have to face up to the fact that the company is losing money.
It's time we face up to the sad truth: we'll not meet given deadline.
Jane had to face up to the possibility of being fired.
Nina had to face up to the possibility of being fired.
Now I'm 28, I have to face up to the fact that I will never be a professional footballer.
You can't pretend that you're doing OK in this course, Joe. Sooner or later, you'll have to face up to the fact that you're failing it.
You have to be brave and face up to your problems.
She's going to have to face up to the fact that he's not going to marry her.
We must face up to the new challenges

English word "accept"(face up to) occurs in sets:

phrasal verbs definitions
phrasal verbs

3. take up take up


I thought I'd take up fishing...
In my defence, all I can say is, you do take up a lot of space.
take up a hobby\sport
take up swimming / take up a career as an actor
Computers used to take up a whole room, and now you can carry one in your pocket.
I'd like to take up Spanish so that I can go to Argentina for a holiday.
Do you know how to take up trousers?
One day I came up an idea that I will take up guitar.
He could take up skateboarding <begin a new activity or hobby>
When people retire, they usually take up a hobby, or a sport of some description, or do some gardening.
Reluctant users slow to take up videoconferncing
Please, you take up my challenge!
He says he's now looking for a woman to take up with.
The CEO would be happy to take up your kind offer.
to take up too much space. the shopping took (up) a lot of time

English word "accept"(take up) occurs in sets:

Business Handbook- unit 16 - Discussions

4. live with live with


I live with my son and my husband.

5. put up with put up with


I can’t put up with my boss!
How do you put up with him? He's so irritating.
It's really important to come to work on time. The boss won't put up with tardiness.
we shouldn't put up with the way he treats us
There’s no wind; and the air is dry. It’s easier to put up with than a cold shower.
I don't think I'm going to put up with her complaining any longer.
James was often obnoxious but John put up with him; after all, close friends normally tolerate each other’s faults.
Have you ever had to put up with noisy people in a hotel?
How do you feel when you get stuck in a traffic jam and you have to put up with? I feel stressed out when I get stuck in a traffic jam and I have to put up with it.
but for who are prepared to put up with the lack of comfort in space, the view will definitely make up for the drawbacks
How can they put up with all these inconveniences?
I can put up with the rain - it's the cold I don't like.
How would you fell if you had to put up with a bossy workmate?
How do you put up with the noise of the traffic outside your bedroom window?
What's the worst thing in your daily life, or in your life generally, that you have to put up with?

6. concede concede


She is very stubborn, she will never concede.
The accountant would not concede the mistake.
The Prime Minister conceded that he had underestimated public discontent.
I concede that you were partly right
The first thing you must concede, however, is that your son can take care of himself.
Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
i concede
He concedes that road design can only do so much.
1. Even the company chairman concedes that the results are disappointing. 2. Don't even try to convince her, she won't concede.
Don't even try to convince her, she won't concede.
We must concede that we committed an error.
We concede your right to this property.
I concede the argument.

7. acceptance


Those customs found acceptance there.
The student submitted a paper to an English-language journal, and the result was "conditional acceptance".
The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.

8. go along with


Yes, I'll go along with that
She had her own ideas and God help anyone who didn't go along with them

9. face


Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.
Let's face it, it's impossible. We're never gonna make it.
His face brightened.
We face competition from foreign suppliers.
I'm getting little pimples on my face. I wonder if I've been getting enough sleep lately.
I'm going to speak to you with utmost candor so I want you to take everything I'm about to say at face value.
If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
The last to leave was a tall man, with a pale face and smooth, black hair.
A face with too much make up looks strange.
I think it's highly unlikely that Tom will ever face criminal charges.
My what a narrow waist! Her face is small, she really looks just like a doll!
Our section chief always makes a face at me when I ask him for something.
They carried on with the construction in the face of strong opposition from the residents.
A parasol is used during the summertime to shade the face.
He thinks he knows everything but, as a matter of face, he is very ignorant.

English word "accept"(face) occurs in sets:

Idioms and adjectives

10. embrace


embrace globalization
Head spinning, lungs screaming, she ran into its embrace.
If you embrace someone, you put your arms around them...
But when we push aside normal emotions to embrace false positivity...
You must embrace him for me, Holy Father.
I need an embrace. He embraced the socialist ideology with enthusiasm.
This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.
He was doubtful at first but soon came to embrace my advice.
Embrace your vulnerability, feel your fear, love fully.
Why do women want to sleep in a man's embrace?
Perhaps you will be surprised but my only desire in this life is to see my son and give him a loving embrace before I die.
I think that our culture is a bit crazy not to embrace it,
Right, so she wants us to embrace – to accept – the idea of a workplace power-nap.
I think that our culture is a bit crazy not to embrace it, and one of the reasons we don't is our attitude, you know it's quite counter-cultural to do nothing in order to get ahead.
People need to be aware of their differences, but also embrace their commonness.

11. face up to it



12. tolerance


I have no tolerance of cowards.
And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

13. acceptable


His ideas are too radical to be acceptable to most people.
Let's find a solution that is acceptable to everyone.
Doing math is the only socially acceptable way to masturbate in public.
Cheating on one's spouse is not usually considered acceptable behavior.
OPP unacceptable
There are conditions under which breaking a promise or telling a lie are acceptable.
It is acceptable to mention your job and interests and to ask the other person about his, but be careful not to let the conversation become too personal.
A lot of people exceed the speed limit so it must be acceptable.
In our interpretation, the output data in Table 2 is an acceptable variation of that in Table 1.
Driving after drinking alcohol is not acceptable behavior.
Acceptable and unacceptable are clearly in opposition to each other.
Do you think it is acceptable for animals to be used in experiments?
The factory has been producing higher than acceptable levels of pollution
He had no acceptable answer for that.

English word "accept"(acceptable) occurs in sets:

Opposites and Suffixes

14. go along


I might go along to the party later.

English word "accept"(go along) occurs in sets:

Phrasal verbs

15. take on


England will have to take on Germany to get through to the finals.
I'm always up for a challange and I often take on the most ridiculous ones.
They’re going to take on ten new interns at Radio London. Why don’t we apply?
Friendship with the same sex take on great importance.
Our company wants to take on two new programmers.
In adolescence, friendships with the same sex take on (acquire) great importance.
take onnew challenges
It's a command and a requirement that you must take on now!
I don't want to take on too much work.
The school decided to take on two drama teachers.
I take on this challenge.
Don't take on too much work. You'll be exhausted.
No one else can take on that responsibility.

English word "accept"(take on) occurs in sets:

phrasal verbs

16. accept


We accept checks.
The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.
Even if that's alright with you nobody else will accept it. I'll get shouted at afterwards so...
Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.
Young people can recognize this about romantic love, but they find it hard to accept the same fierce element in parental affection.
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that no one would have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound.
We accept making a reduction in price of 5% if this will help you to develop a new market for our products.
Truth is pure, but truth is painful. No sane, selfish person would ever accept things for what they are. Such is the masochism inherent in "truth".
Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.
And since she refused to accept it, she had been living in extreme discomfort, exclaiming: "Why should we spend all the capital we are ever likely to have tying ourselves down to a place we detest!"
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
accept a small gift/they offered me a job and I accepted/The manager would not accept her resignation/ We don't accept credit cards. I've been accepted at Harvard./accept an invitation/accept advice, suggestion
Michelle accepted her friend’s offer of accommodation at her country house for the weekend.
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church … a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
When I was a kid, I thought that if I died the world would just disappear. What a childish delusion! I just couldn't accept that the world could continue to exist without me.

English word "accept"(accept) occurs in sets:

101 - 200 verbos

17. approve


Some people don't approve of professional baseball.
Grant asked the Senate to approve the treaty.
It has not yet been decided whether to approve of your proposal.
All the delegates voted to approve it.
Who approves the Programme?
A famous Japanese poet does not approve of any fixed doctrine in haiku.
In asking voters to approve the new tax, the President appealed to reason.
We should be the last people on earth to approve of the use of atomic energy for military purposes.
Two hours and 20 minutes later, the plan was approved.
disapprove of
We do not have to approve Nord Stream; we might well approve the Amber pipeline. Unfortunately I cannot approve of the behaviour of the Burmese Government and the Burmese authorities.
“I can’t say I approve of everything he does, Maudie, but he’s my brother, and I just want him to know when this will ever end.
The teacher approved the topic of my essay
We had to wait months for the council to approve our plans to extend the house.
C.J. needs you to approve this. Anybody capable of thought must approve it.

18. condone


We were not aware of nor would we condone this reported activity
If the government is seen to condone violence, the bloodshed will never stop.
His comments appeared to condone drug abuse.
The Catholic Church doesn't condone the use of condoms.
I would not condone, participate in, or encourage any such behavior

19. acquiesce


We have been unable to acquiesce to his wishes.

20. to buy into the idea



English word "accept"(to buy into the idea) occurs in sets:

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21. consent to receive or undertake



English word "accept"(consent to receive or undertake) occurs in sets:

Most common verbs 151 - 200

22. unacceptable


This is totally unacceptable.
It is highly regrettable that your request was considered to be unacceptable.
Cancelling the meeting at this late stage is completely unacceptable.
When I arrived on Rozprza, I found an unacceptable situation.
The children were told that running along the corridors was unacceptable behaviour.
The team lost the basketball game 32–68 and their coach said the score was unacceptable.
his behaviour was unacceptable
Acceptable and unacceptable are clearly in opposition to each other.

23. confirm


Statistics confirm that drinking is a serious problem.
The results confirmed that the average number of links in the chain was six.
Please confirm.
Please tell the reservation clerk, Mr Ichiro Takahashi, your credit card number to confirm your reservation.
We need you to confirm your attendance because places are limited.
First, try to confirm the timing by oscilloscope.
I would like to confirm the following for our meeting at our office on February 27.
Your weight confirms that you have eaten too much during the holidays.
Have they confirmed the new commencement date yet?
His wife confirmed that he'd left the house at 8.
I will confirm you that our meeting tomorrow is up to date.
So far the organizers haven't confirmed Bryan Adams on the festival's lineup.
To the end of the May you must confirm what means of transport you are going to the conference.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed a message about Turkish media.
He confirmed my fears.

24. allow


If you are a parent, don't allow yourself to set your heart on any particular line of work for your children.
Tom always stays at school as late as the teachers allow him to.
It allows...
Father, today I'm going out with some friends. Of course, that's if you will allow it.
The new version of Tatoeba will allow linking people, and even editing them!
If it's a light workout, OK. "Right, so will we allow crotch-kicking and eyeball crushing?"
You think that people are okay, but I allow one to think that people and all societies are bad. No one wants other people to tolerate their mischief. People give grief to people because their viewpoints vary.
Schools have tried to limit their use by not allowing them to be used in math classes, although they allow them in science lessons to save time.
Throat and nose membranes hurt by dry air allow cold viruses to enter more easily. It is important to carry out sensible counter plans against the cold with heaters and against the dryness with humidifiers.
Other than that, you should know that I allow myself a bit of irony from time to time.
Well then I'll allow two on a bike, but you pedal, because I'll ride on the rack.
It's a fiddle going to and fro between the keyboard and mouse so are there shortcuts to allow operation using only the keyboard?
You might not feel comfortable about allowing the person to realise you didn't really catch their name
this allows you to keep these resources separate from the source code.
pozwalać, zezwalać na [often passive] Smoking is not allowed in the restaurant. [+ to do sth] You are not allowed to use calculators UK in the exam/US on the exam. [+ two objects] Patients are not allowed visitors after nine o'clock.

English word "accept"(allow) occurs in sets:

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25. reject


I'm going to ask Leslie on a date. I hope she doesn't reject me.
I am afraid it is a reject.
reject the proposal
She feels rejected by her partners. Yale rejected his application.
Do you reject Satan and all his empty promises?
Coin-operated machines in England reject euros.
The appeal was rejected by the court.; Coin-operated machines in England reject euros; The committee will decide whether to accept or reject the offer.
I don't intend to flatly reject suicide, but I really wish parents would not make their children join in with them.
Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.
Reject all its lies and vulgarity.
They are part of a subculture that rejects everything mainstream in favour of expressing their own uniqueness.
If the application is rejected, the employee shall have the right to apply to a labour court for an amendment of the certificate of employment within seven days of the date of being informed about the refusal to amend the certificate.
The manager rejected our request for a new fridge in the staff kitchen.
I applied for a job as a mechanic in a local garage, but I was rejected
I sent my documents for an interview at Roche but they rejected my CV

English word "accept"(reject) occurs in sets:

Opposites - verbs

26. to take something that someone offers to give you



English word "accept"(to take something that someone offers to give you) occurs in sets:

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27. see ENDORSE



English word "accept"(see ENDORSE) occurs in sets:

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