Quiz on accept, admit, and recognize

The short passages below are all from data drawn from the Bank of English corpus created by COBUILD at Birmingham University. Each passage originally contained accept, admit or recognize. Can you fill in the correct word for each one?

You can in theory design a spacecraft that could have solar arrays. It would be very big solar arrays--almost hundreds of square feet type solar arrays. But then you've got to ________ that in order to get the speed that we require--50 kilometers a second type speed--you can't have a large spacecraft with the existing type of launchers.
One must remember that Padmasambhava is revered in Tibet as a second Buddha, particularly by the older sects, a fact of which Kawaguchi was aware but which he could never really ________ or fully appreciate. `His teaching is a sort of parody on Buddhism proper," we find him saying, `and an attempt to sanctify the sexual relations of humankind...'
Remember that binge eating is generally caused by chronic dieting. In many cases, compulsive eaters have lost the ability to ________ or respond to the natural signals of when to start or stop eating. Ironically, they need to rediscover their hunger.
The color bar in fencing was broken when the Amateur Fencers League of America voted to ________ members 'regardless of color or race.' The action came as the result of application for membership by two blacks who were members of the Columbia U. fencing team.
Emma, of course, had been dead right. Dead right. An uncannily accurate choice of words. DeDe was dead. The first person to receive that news had been the last to _______ it as the truth. Now she _______ed it. DeDe was dead and Edgar was dead and Beauchamp was dead and Faust was dead and Frances Alicia Ligon Halcyon was utterly and inexorably alone...
...people are looking for exercise as an outlet to remaining healthy. We worry about dieting, cholesterol and many other issues, so people ________ that ankle injuries and knee injuries are a normal wear-and-tear phenomenon that occurs with jogging, running and even high-impact aerobics...
When Ely talks about dropping out these days, usually he's quick to ________ that he made the decision himself to cut school and do so badly. But sometimes when he talks about it, even he sounds puzzled, like someone who'd been caught up in a whirlwind...
To recover from the drug-addiction epidemic will require the same searching and fearless honesty required of the addict in recovery. Just as the individual addict must ________ being powerless over addiction before recovery can begin, so we as a society will not substantially reduce our addiction problems until enough of us become aware and acknowledge that we are ...
Rebels in Somalia said today that they're prepared to allow a cease-fire, but only long enough to permit the evacuation of foreigners. The rebel United Somali Congress said it won't ________ foreign intervention or engage in direct talks with President Mohamed Siad Barre. The rebels claim to occupy part of the capital city, Mogadishu, and to be within striking distance of the bunker
He had jotted some names in his notebook, but even as he did it he wondered why. The laws he enforced had been taken by the Tribal Council from the white man's laws and the white man did not ________ witchcraft as an offense. It would become an offense only if some specified crime was involved. There had been a case of extortion once, nothing they had ever proved...
He felt that Gloria misunderstood and simply considered him lazy, distracted by too much social life. He did ________ he procrastinated, not by seeing people but by unfocused reading, mostly magazines and detective stories, but also 'good' books which can be converted into escape too.

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