Avoided and Take on

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Take on is an antonym for avoided in prevent topic.

Take on verb - To enter into contest or conflict with.

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Avoided is an antonym for take on.

In the Modesty Blaise short story "The Giggle-Wrecker", spy chief Tarrant asks Modesty and Willie to take on the job of smuggling a Soviet defector across the Berlin Wall, as he has no agents in place except sleepers he doesn't want to activate if it can be avoided.

Source: Defector from Commie Land

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