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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (21293)	7/17/2005 2:17:37 PM
From: exdaytrader76	Respond to of 28931

"I agree to adopt any child I father" Sometimes words have more than one precise definition, you know. You are hung up on def #1. I was using def #3. I won't tell Mensa about your little error. dictionary.reference.com a·dopt 1. To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child. 2. A - To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new technique. B - To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea. 3. To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance. 4. To vote to accept: adopt a resolution. 5. To choose as standard or required in a course: adopt a new line of English textbooks.