To accept is to receive, and except is to exclude, usually. Both are busy little words skipping around to different meanings, but they never run into each other. accept Please accept ("favorably receive") our apologies, but you're just going to have to accept ("put up with") the fact that this verb has almost a dozen different meanings. except The preposition except means "excluding." When we refer to the continental United States, we mean the whole country except Alaska and Hawaii. [Source.](https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/accept-except/)