Qualify
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to describe or characterize something by listing its qualities to make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task to certify or license someone for something to modify, limit, restrict or moderate something to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage
Example sentence: It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.
Restrict
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
Example sentence: I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.