Synonyms 9

Question 1

decline, refuse, reject, repudiate, and spurn

Answer 1

can all mean to turn away something or someone by not consenting to accept, receive, or consider that thing or person.

Question 2

decline

Answer 2

the most courteous of the terms, is used chiefly in connection with invitations, offers of help, or services

Question 3

refuse

Answer 3

is more positive, implying decisiveness, even ungraciousness

Question 4

reject

Answer 4

implies a refusal to have anything to do with a person or thing

Question 5

repudiate

Answer 5

implies a disowning or rejecting with scorn as untrue, unauthorized, unworthy of acceptance, making false claim, and so on

Question 6

spurn

Answer 6

implies even stronger disdain or contempt in rejection than repudiate

Question 7

approve

Answer 7

applies to a feeling or expression of commendation or of agreement with, but it may suggest a judicious attitude involved

Question 8

endorse or indorse

Answer 8

suggests vouching for, supporting, or explicitly expressing approval of and is often used in reference to things needing promotion or publicity

Question 9

accredit

Answer 9

is likely to indicate an approved status confirmed by some authoritative force or conformity to a standard officially vouched for

Question 10

certify

Answer 10

is often a close synonym for accredit; it may stress a formal act of writing or attesting to conformity with a standard or to being as represented

Question 11

adopt

Answer 11

may stress the fact that the belief or practice is not of one’s own invention but is voluntarily taken from another’s example

Question 12

embrace

Answer 12

may suggest ready, willing, or happy acceptance or reception of a belief or practice

Question 13

espouse

Answer 13

may indicate either genuine depth of attachment or lasting and participating acceptance and alliance