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
pie in the sky
a goal or plan that is too optimistic, a future reward after death
The boy's plans for his summer were pie in the sky. He would never complete them.