ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsAacquire
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acquire
Meaning: to gain, obtain, or come to have something
acquire in a sentence
How acquire is used in real sentences:
The museum hopes to acquire several letters from the poet's family.
The team worked for months to acquire the missing records.
“The laboratory had acquired several cave samples from a nearby university.”
— from the passage Secrets in Stone
Synonyms for acquire
Other words for acquire — obtain, gain and secure — carry the same meaning.
- obtain
- gain
- secure
Antonyms of acquire
Words that mean the opposite of acquire:
- lose
- surrender
- forfeit
Where it comes from
From Latin acquirere 'to get in addition' (ad- 'to' + quaerere 'to seek').
Memory hook
Acquire means to get something and add it to what you have.