Select and Take up

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Select verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.

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Take up and select are semantically related in take topic. In some cases you can use "Take up" instead a verb "Select".

Take up verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.

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Select and take up are semantically related in take topic. Sometimes you can use "Select" instead a verb "Take up".

In Mahou Shoujo Pretty Bell, the magic rod that is supposed to select the next schoolgirl to take up the fight instead chooses a 35-year-old bodybuilder.

Source: Magical Girl
The player can elect to take along several other heroes with personal grudges against him, who then all try to call Leave Him to Me at once; you can select which one fights him... and they can die if he beats them, forcing somebody else to step in and take up the fight.

Source: Hero Killer

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