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    My grandparents adopted the American method of having one family name.
    adopted = took as their own
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    And they were my real brothers, not just sort of adopted ones.  (source)
    adopted = taken on
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    I haven't vet met Mike's adoptive parents, but Mike and I have spent a lot of time talking, and I've been thinking—  (source)
    adoptive = having taken on legal responsibilities of raising a child conceived by someone else
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    The travelers adopted the practice of arranging the animals in a circle at night, sleeping together in the center as protection against the nocturnal cold.  (source)
    adopted = took on
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    He used his station to encourage people to adopt good habits and abandon practices he said were bad.†  (source)
    adopt = take on as one's own
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    You shoulda stayed single, put the child up for adoption, and you'd be a free woman today.†  (source)
    adoption = the act of taking something on as one's own
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    "Pfiffikus!" she echoed, quickly adopting the appropriate cruelty that childhood seems to require.†  (source)
    adopting = taking on as one's own
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    I'd only ever seen one black person, a little girl, the adoptive daughter of a family at church.†  (source)
    adoptive = made by taking on as one's own
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Felicity adopts the same ridiculous face.†  (source)
    adopts = takes on as one's own
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    Adoptions were and are virtually unheard of in our Province of Oria.†  (source)
    Adoptions = acts of taking something on as one's own
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    You're a style leader, early adopter, all that.†  (source)
    adopter = someone who takes something on as their own
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    And this is the little girl you have adopted, I suppose?  (source)
    adopted = legally took on parental responsibilities for another person's child
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    He ordered the men to do push-ups for about twenty minutes, then adopt the Ofuna crouch.†  (source)
    adopt = take on as one's own
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