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 2
- 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 16
- 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:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)