Antonym: hereditary, innate. Similar words: acquire, required, acquiesce, acquittal, acquisition, acquiescence, require, inquire about. Meaning: [ə'kwaɪə] adj. gotten through environmental forces.
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(181) What happened is indisputable: students, and the institutions to which they belonged, acquired a bad name universally.
(182) Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree.
(183) At last my boyish figure had acquired some status and a more attractive description: gamine.
(184) The National Trust acquired this unusual property in 1951, but few records were kept of the garden's early management.
(185) Morphologically it represents the most anterior region of the head and has secondarily acquired a basal hinged attachment.
(186) Analysts are divided over whether Fore and the other expensively acquired businesses will ever make a decent return for shareholders.
(187) The written examinations would provide the opportunity for assessing whether the student had acquired a sufficiently analytical approach to the subject.
(188) Elga Group has changed its name to Protean and has acquired Carbolite, the electric furnace and oven specialist.
(189) Genetic epistemology is the science of how knowledge is acquired.
(190) Millions of voters have acquired a stake in the wider ownership of shares and homes and a voice in union affairs.
(191) Having acquired the taste[sentencedict.com], a service career became increasingly attractive to them.
(192) The argument concerning the destination of the nation's art treasures has, however, acquired a bitter aftertaste.
(193) Tod sins singly ... He has acquired a taste for alcohol and tobacco.
(194) During the period of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, Parliament acquired enhanced status.
(195) Its traditional civilization, which already embodied many different beliefs and attitudes, acquired new religious elements from outside.
(196) Her recently acquired aspirates gave way completely under the stress of emotion.
(197) Robinson tinkered with his lines, breaking up the Wayne Gretzky and recently acquired Kevin Stevens combination after three games.
(198) If volatiles are acquired during accretion then most of the volatiles are initially buried deep in the planet.
(199) When the Kyburgers sold Burgdorf to Bern in 1384 the townsfolk had already acquired burgher rights.
(200) It is only with thought, practice and feedback that the necessary skills can be acquired.
(201) Much of this is actually linguistics(http://Sentencedict.com), however - something of an acquired taste.
(202) In 1998 the business was acquired by a Dutch company.
(203) Curry is an acquired taste and heavily spiced food is surely not suitable for the stomachs of very young children.
(204) He treated Abram well for her sake and Abram acquired sheep and cattle.
(205) The principal element of fixed assets is land and buildings acquired for development projects.
(206) Their recently acquired understanding very often prevents them from achieving a full-blown panic attack.
(207) Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. Criss Jami
(208) It acquired its stake in the early 1980s, hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group.
(209) Infections newly acquired during this tail will therefore be under selection pressure.
(210) Indeed, Fleet was eager to liquidate the preferred shares, because they legally precluded it from integrating those newly acquired assets.
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