Accept and Select

Accept

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

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

Select verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

Usage example: selected only two people out of 300 applicants for the summer internship

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Accept and select are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Accept" instead a verb "Select".

Shout-Out: One Citizen on Level 8 opens a conversation with "Your mission, should you choose to accept it..." One of the nicknames you can select for your character is Suicide Squad.

Source: Video Game / Freedom Wars
Most players just select no and get on with the battle, but if you accept, and you must accept more than once, you get a Non-Standard Game Over (except in the SNES version where he wakes up in a town near the Big Bad's castle, where the innkeeper says that he had a Bad Dream).

Source: Video Game / Dragon Quest I
The Longwing dragon captains in the Temeraire series could be a sort of Amazon Brigade — Longwings almost exclusively select female captains (it is implied that on occasion one will accept a male grudgingly, but none have been shown yet).

Source: Amazon Brigade

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