Choose.
Synonyms:
cull, elect, pick, pick out, prefer, select.
Prefer indicates a state of desire and approval; choose, an act of will. Prudence or generosity may lead one to choose what he does not prefer. Select implies a careful consideration of the reasons for preference and choice. Among objects so nearly alike that we have no reason to prefer any one to another we may simply choose the nearest, but we could not be said to select it. Aside from theology, elect is popularly confined to the political sense; as, a free people elect their own rulers. Cull, from the Latin colligere, commonly means to collect, as well as to select. In a garden we cull the choicest flowers.
Antonyms:
| cast away, | decline, | dismiss, | refuse, | repudiate, |
| cast out, | disclaim, | leave, | reject, | throw aside. |
Prepositions:
Choose from or from among the number; choose out of the army; choose between (or betwixt) two; among many; choose for the purpose.