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English to English verb
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choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans |  | Example: She followed the feminist movement
The candidate espouses Republican ideals
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take up and practice as one's own | | source: wordnet30
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take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | | Example: When will the new President assume office?
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take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | | Example: His voice took on a sad tone
The story took a new turn
he adopted an air of superiority
She assumed strange manners
The gods assume human or animal form in these fables
source: wordnet30
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take into one's family | | Example: They adopted two children from Nicaragua
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put into dramatic form | | Example: adopt a book for a screenplay
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take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | | Example: She embraced Catholicism
They adopted the Jewish faith
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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. | | source: webster1913
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