Decline
Decline verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.
Enter
Enter verb - To offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to.
Usage example: the club enters only five new members a year
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Inverted. Cloud can enter a tutorial hall to brush up on the basics, but when NPCs offer to give him pointers, he will decline and instead offer to teach them.
Source: As You Know -
Should a ruler have their bloodline severed, the land will often enter a period of dramatic decline, suffering droughts and natural disasters.
Source: Tabletop Game / Birthright - Their decline was brought about by a congo line of disasters, starting with the emergence of Darkspawn following a failed attempt by Tevinter magisters to enter the fade and wrest control of the Golden City from the Maker(God, basically) himself.
Source: Vestigial Empire
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