Synonyms: swallow, live with, accept
Definition: tolerate or accommodate oneself to
Usage: I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions; I swallowed the insult; She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies
Similar words: endure, put up, digest, bear, abide, brook, stand, suffer, support, tolerate, stick out, stomach
Definition: put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Usage: I cannot bear his constant criticism; The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks; he learned to tolerate the heat; She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage
Synonyms: accept
Definition: consider or hold as true
Usage: I cannot accept the dogma of this church; accept an argument
Similar words: evaluate, judge, pass judgment
Definition: form a critical opinion of
Usage: I cannot judge some works of modern art; How do you evaluate this grant proposal? We shouldn't pass judgment on other people
Synonyms: accept
Definition: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
Usage: The cow accepted the bull
Synonyms: accept
Definition: react favorably to; consider right and proper
Usage: People did not accept atonal music at that time; We accept the idea of universal health care
Synonyms: consent, accept, go for
Definition: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
Usage: I cannot accept your invitation; I go for this resolution
Synonyms: accept
Definition: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
Definition: get something; come into possession of
Usage: receive payment; receive a gift; receive letters from the front
Definition: receive willingly something given or offered
Usage: The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter; I won't have this dog in my house!; Please accept my present
Definition: come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
Usage: She got a lot of paintings from her uncle; They acquired a new pet; Get your results the next day; Get permission to take a few days off from work
Synonyms: accept, admit, take, take on
Definition: admit into a group or community
Usage: accept students for graduate study; We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
Similar words: have, take, accept
Definition: receive willingly something given or offered
Usage: The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter; I won't have this dog in my house!; Please accept my present
Synonyms: bear, accept, assume, take over
Definition: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
Usage: I'll accept the charges; She agreed to bear the responsibility
Similar words: take
Definition: take into one's possession
Usage: We are taking an orphan from Romania; I'll take three salmon steaks
Definition: be designed to hold or take
Usage: This surface will not take the dye
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer