Accept
Accept verb - To agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly.
Duck
Duck verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Usage example: don't try to duck your commitment to spending Thanksgiving with your family by claiming you have to work
Common collocations
| responsibility | accept responsibility | duck responsibility |
| marriage | accept marriage | duck marriage |
| someone | accept someone | duck someone |
| challenge | accept challenge | duck challenge |
| Other words: blame, mission, consequences. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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He also tells Willie in "Duck Be A Lady" that he needs to accept that his daughter isn't a little girl anymore and that he needs to stop being so overprotective of her.
Source: Series / Duck Dynasty -
And Charcoal March of Spiders: when you absolutely, positively have to punch out everyone on the continent twice in the same instant (or turn them into a duck, or erase them from Creation, or...), accept no substitutes.
Source: Supernatural Martial Arts - When one of Scrooge's plans to make more money fails, rather than accept responsibility, Scrooge blames Donald Duck.
Source: Chased Off into the Sunset
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