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obtain (come into the possession of something)- As we acquire a more powerful vocabulary, we acquire greater breadth and precision in our ability to understand and describe the world.
acquire = obtain (get)
- Children acquire language at an amazing rate.
- They are working to acquire nuclear weapons.
- what's wrong with a man becoming intelligent and wanting to acquire knowledge and understanding of the world around him?Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon
- Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- It was a habit he had acquired.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- Thirty-four days later, I cried as I stuffed my collection of arts-and-crafts projects and the folders of schoolwork I had acquired into a small cardboard box.Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
- The mischief is merely that each one has much too much power. A non-com, can torment a private, a lieutenant a non-com, a captain a lieutenant, until he goes mad. And because they know they can, they all soon acquire the habit more or less.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- We are convinced that Jonas has the ability to acquire wisdom.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- a philosopher who should go deep enough to acquire the power would attain too lofty a wisdom to stoop to the exercise of it.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
- Eddie and Morton ... fired the nozzles of their newly acquired flamethrowers and watched the huts ignite.Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- His painfully acquired armory of symptoms, catchwords, and diagnostic procedures is now to be put to use at last.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade (which he couldn't have acquired without his first talent),S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- I think that they can, and that they will acquire some wisdom.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- We acquired no traumas from watching our father win or lose.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- In addition to Jem's newly developed characteristics, he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
acquire = obtain (get)
acquire = obtain (get)
acquire = come into possession
acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
acquire = coming into the possession of
acquired = came into the possession of
acquiring = obtaining
acquired = obtained
acquire = get (pick up)
acquire = obtain (come into possession of)
acquire = obtain (come into possession of)
acquired = obtained (came into the possession of)
acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
acquired = obtained (come into possession of)
acquired = obtaining (coming into possession of)
acquired = obtained (come into possession of)
acquire = obtain (come into possession of)
acquired = picked up
acquired = obtained (came into possession of)