Word: acceptant
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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
Varsity baseball’s pitching ace Ben Crockett ’02 says athletes who choose Harvard accept the school’s academic demands and make a “rational choice” to sacrifice more extracurriculars or social activities than if they had gone to another school...
...accept this option if an address centered on Princess Anastasia Is Alive/Trilateral Commission Links to the Masons/Earth Is Flat/Devil Worship in the Girl Scouts may be inappropriate...
Purveyors of raw or "living" food follow strict culinary standards: fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds--preferably organic--are fine, but meat, chicken and dairy are forbidden. Some chefs ban all added heat, while others accept temperatures of 120[degrees] or less, just barely enough to warm. With no stoves, the tools of the trade include food processors, juicers and dehydrators--along with plenty of ingenuity. "It's like being in a maze and finding you're up against the wall," says committed carnivore Norman Van Aken of Miami's Norman's, who, for fun, concocted a series of raw recipes...
...upon what I have observed at this school for four years, I have noticed a notable subdivision within these two groups of students. Although I have no empirical data to back-up my observation, and I acknowledge the exceptions to every rule, it seems that those more willing to accept the risks of procrastination, the group I would label the more confident among us, tend to be the guys, and the students who take more time with their work, and have less faith in their ability to perform under pressure, tend to be the girls...