Accept and Elect

Accept

Accept verb - To agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly.

Elect and accept are semantically related In some cases you can use "Elect" instead a verb "Accept".

Elect

Elect verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Usage example: I've elected to study French as my foreign language

Accept and elect are semantically related in choose topic. Sometimes you can use "Accept" instead a verb "Elect".

Common collocations

people accept people elect people
leadership accept leadership elect leadership
someone accept someone elect someone
death accept death elect death

Both words in one sentence

  • The Holy Roman Empire (Germany) also opts to elect Charles V's brother as Emperor, since they do not expect Philip would accept Protestantism.
  • Mêlée à Trois One of the missions you can elect to take during the main mission chain is to call a meeting between the three factions to get them to stop their fighting and accept a truce in order to fight the dragons.
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