All 5 Uses of
acquire
in
Story of My Life
- He was a famous story-teller; after I had acquired language he used to spell clumsily into my hand his cleverest anecdotes, and nothing pleased him more than to have me repeat them at an opportune moment.†
Chpt 2acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort;
Chpt 6 *acquire = obtain (come into possession of)
- The deaf and the blind find it very difficult to acquire the amenities of conversation.†
Chpt 6
- Of course this was tasking slender powers for great ends; but it gave me something to do on a rainy day, and I acquired a sufficient knowledge of French to read with pleasure La Fontaine's "Fables,"†
Chpt 16acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Miss Reamy, my German teacher, could use the manual alphabet, and after I had acquired a small vocabulary, we talked together in German whenever we had a chance, and in a few months I could understand almost everything she said.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
obtain (come into the possession of something)