Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Usage example: trying to avoid writing thank-you notes for the gifts he didn't like
Accept
Accept verb - To take to or upon oneself.
Usage example: accepted the responsibility of sending out the invitations
Common collocations
| people | avoid people | accept people |
| responsibility | avoid responsibility | accept responsibility |
| marriage | avoid marriage | accept marriage |
| fate | avoid fate | accept fate |
| Other words: death, situation, punishment, anyone, consequences. | ||
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