Refuse and Select

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Refuse verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.

Usage example: she refused the award, citing the hard work of others who deserved the recognition more than she did

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Select is an antonym for refuse.

Nearby Words: refused, refusal, refusing, refuser

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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Refuse is an antonym for select in pick out topic.

order	refuse order	select order
item	refuse item	select item
way	refuse way	select way
command	refuse command	select command
Other words: option, times, weapons.

Gwen admits that she's not entirely proud of this system and is the only sorceress to refuse to select a servant for herself.

Source: Literature / Magic 2.0
Some refuse to embrace this so soon, others eager for the chance, but on one fateful day after our young adults have graduated, everything changes for a select few who's lives will change forever.

Source: Roleplay / Persona Requis Aeterna
An NPC in Zero 2 remarks on the difficulty of getting pictures of bosses for the stage select, and a mod card NPC in Zero 3 will note Zero's Celibate Hero tendencies if you refuse her advances.

Source: Video Game / Mega Man Zero

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