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Adopt Tone Adopted Accent Voice Speak Differently Normal

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If you a____ an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation .If you adopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation .
Adult actors in American productions were expected to adopt English accents.
The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice to adopt.
word adopt
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verb
If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops.
Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
...the adoption of Japanese management practices by British manufacturing.
If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter .
There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child.
The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
A social worker is appointed to interview the prospective adopters.
They gave their babies up for adoption.
The majority of adoptions are successful.
If you adopt a physical position, you move yourself into it.
I tried to adopt a curled-up position to avoid damaging my limbs.
If you adopt a country, you choose it as a place to live .
Podulski had joined the U.S. Navy as an aviator, adopting a new country and a new profession.
...their adopted home in England.
If you adopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation .
Adult actors in American productions were expected to adopt English accents.
The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice to adopt.
inflections adoptsadoptingadoptedadoptionadopteradoptersadoptionadoptions
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