v.
1.choose and follow
2.take up and practice as one's own
3.take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
4.take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
5.take into one's family
6.put into dramatic form
7.take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Idiom of the Day
take (something) with a grain of salt
to not take something that someone has said seriously
You can take everything that our teacher says with a grain of salt.