Scrabble?! ADOPT

Definitions of ADOPT in various dictionaries:

verb - choose and follow

verb - take up and practice as one's own

verb - take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

verb - take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

verb - take into one's family

verb - put into dramatic form

verb - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

To take into one’s family through legal means and raise as one’s own child.

To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new technique.

To take up and make one’s own: adopt a new idea.

To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.

To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.

One refers to an adopted child but to adoptive parents.

verb - to take into one's family by legal means