Are you trying to hyphenate adopt? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
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Choose and follow As of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans She followed the feminist movement The candidate espouses Republican ideals |
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Take up and practice as one's own |
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Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities When will the new President assume office? |
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Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect His voice took on a sad tone The story took a new turn He adopted an air of superiority She assumed strange manners The gods assume human or animal form in these fables |
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Take into one's family They adopted two children from Nicaragua |
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Put into dramatic form Adopt a book for a screenplay |
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Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own She embraced Catholicism They adopted the Jewish faith |
| verb | follow, espouse, choose, take, select, pick out
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| verb | borrow, take over, take up, accept, take, have |
| verb | assume, take on, take over, take office
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| verb | assume, acquire, take on, take, change |
| verb | take in, take |
| verb | dramatize, dramatise, write, compose, pen, indite |
| verb | espouse, embrace, sweep up, accept |