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Children acquire language at an amazing rate.acquire = obtain (get)
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They are working to acquire nuclear weapons.
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We are convinced that Jonas has the ability to acquire wisdom. (source)acquire = obtain (come into possession of)
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An old man, with a breastplate of gold, wouldn't have lied just to acquire six sheep. (source)
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Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. (source)acquired = obtained
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He was famous for shoplifting and his black-handled switchblade (which he couldn't have acquired without his first talent), (source)acquired = obtained (come into possession of)
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In addition to Jem's newly developed characteristics, he had acquired a maddening air of wisdom. (source)acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
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One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. (source)acquire = coming into the possession of
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She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. (source)acquiring = obtaining
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When one has ridden such trails for miles across country, one acquires almost an instinct for them.† (source)acquires = obtains (comes into possession of)
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Distributive are those that determine the Rights of the Subjects, declaring to every man what it is, by which he acquireth and holdeth a propriety in lands, or goods, and a right or liberty of action; and these speak to all the Subjects.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She acquireth" in older English, today we say "She acquires."
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Was vast wealth acquirable through industrial channels?† (source)acquirable = obtainable (capable of being possessed)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Eddie and Morton ... fired the nozzles of their newly acquired flamethrowers and watched the huts ignite. (source)acquired = obtained (came into the possession of)
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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. (source)acquire = get (pick up)
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whilst he had endured much trouble in acquiring, he had but little in keeping. (source)acquiring = coming into the possession of
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And the drama, you will see, acquires a tremendous value from this point.† (source)acquires = obtains (comes into possession of)
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