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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(241) Victor Matthews, Trafalgar's vice-chairman, was in the familiar self-made baron mould and duly acquired his barony from Mrs Thatcher.
(242) One explanation for this finding would be that H pylori infection is acquired by people throughout their lives.
(243) This is because it must include all assets which might be acquired for investment purposes.
(244) Acquired by bequest in 1921, it used to be considered one of the Metropolitan Museum's greatest early Northern paintings.
(245) He acquired a stake in a small lighting business which bought candles from the Wandsworth factory.
(246) But his athletic prowess dovetailed with his particular experiences, and his body, for him, acquired almost magical power.
(247) With initial cognitive differentiations, the first acquired feelings are observed.
(248) Both cut to pieces anything animal in their path[sentencedict.com], and both have acquired a mystique of terror in their own land.
(249) Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm
(250) It is an acquired taste for sensitive palates but a lot of hungry people are only too happy to tuck in.
(251) Nevertheless, the base of their power lay within the territory which they had acquired by the late 530's.
(252) He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised.
(253) The elaborately staged conferences have acquired a reputation for issuing high-sounding communiques urging remedial economic or monetary action.
(254) Apart from the wad of Reichsmarks that Joyce had acquired at the bureau de change, they had nothing at all.
(255) Once slated for thousands of homes, the Daley Ranch was acquired by the city for $ 21 million in January.
(256) The new company also acquired five franchised units and raised more than $ 12 million for working capital.
(257) Physical, logical-mathematical, and social knowledge are not acquired directly but are constructed by the individual.
(258) Recently acquired 70 new buses equipped with front-end bike racks that can accommodate two bikes.
(259) As he acquired further land and office in the north, the affinity inevitably widened.
(260) AC Transit recently acquired 70 new buses equipped with wheelchair lifts.
(261) He acquired from his mother a love of hymns and a deeply spiritual religion.
(262) Mr Pinault acquired an asset that subsequently produced lots of much-needed cash.
(263) The median clearance time of newly acquired human papillomavirus was 6 months.
(264) Expert power refers to the possession of a specific body of knowledge acquired either through formal academic training or job experience.
(265) Heinz Co. acquired the ailing food company for an undisclosed amount.
(266) In this way the original insights of New Right thinking have acquired for themselves a bad name.
(267) The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has recently acquired several paintings by Salvador Dali.
(268) Acquired dyslexia involves a loss of reading ability as a result of brain injury.
(269) Conflict: there is ample opportunity for this information to be acquired and used by other divisions within the conglomerate.
(270) This proved a vain hope,(www.Sentencedict.com) as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
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