Accept
Accept verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).
Usage example: he accepted all of life's vicissitudes without complaint
Evade
Evade verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Usage example: people who use every loophole in the law to evade paying taxes
Common collocations
| people | accept people | evade people |
| responsibility | accept responsibility | evade responsibility |
| fate | accept fate | evade fate |
| death | accept death | evade death |
| Other words: way, punishment, consequences. | ||
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