Pick
Pick verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Usage example: I pick you as my partner
Reject
Reject verb - To be unwilling to grant.
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Both words in one sentence
- By contrast, Ashley and Kaidan will reject you if you pick a few wrong options.. However, in that game, Liara was only nominally important in that her mother was The Dragon.
- Note that being uniformly old-fashioned is not necessary; the character can pick and choose the best of both eras, as long as those characters he is contrasted to reject the best of old times as old-fashioned.
Source: Good Old Ways -
Said natives, however, reject their help, which they first blame on the language barrier, but when they pick up the language, it turns out that this is just that kind of a Crapsack World and the natives are used to it.
Source: Language Barrier
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