Partake versus intake

[Werner]

Business English Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #86 "Verbal Communication Skills", question 8

Feel free to visit anything of interest to you in the exhibition and also you can ......... of any of the refreshments available.

(a) retake
(b) undertake
(c) partake
(d) intake

Business English Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #86 "Verbal Communication Skills", answer 8

Feel free to visit anything of interest to you in the exhibition and also you can partake of any of the refreshments available.

Correct answer: (c) partake
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partake versus intake?

Werner

[Conchita]

To partake here means to eat or drink.

The noun intake has several definitions: fuel intake, for example, is the quantity of fuel taken in; calorie intake, the quantity of calories taken into the body. An intake of new recruits is a group of new people taken in by an organization. The verb 'take in' is not commonly used in the sense of 'eating/drinking'.