Reject and Select

Reject

Reject verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.
Usage example: rejected his marriage proposal

Select is an antonym for reject in discard topic.

Nearby Words: rejected, rejection, rejecting, rejector, rejecter

Select

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

Reject is an antonym for select in topics: choose, pick out.

Common collocations

role reject role select role
name reject name select name
parts reject parts select parts
powers reject powers select powers

Both words in one sentence

  • The King appoints a heir and the Assembly usually approves it, but they can reject the former King's first choice in the past and select their own.
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