- Types Of Speech
- You can use acquire as a verb in a sentence.
- About Acquire
- A 2 syllables verb and 7 letters with the letters a, c, e, i, q, r, and u, 3 consonants, 4 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter u. Acquire starts with and ends with a vowel with the starting letters a, ac, acq, acqu, acqui, and the ending characters are e, re, ire, uire, quire, ..
- Definition
- Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains";
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Acquire is set as a sat word that starts with a, ends with e, 2 syllables, 4 vowels and 7 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is acquire a scrabble word? A 18 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Acquire in Pig Latin is said as "acquireay or acquireway".
- Unigram
- a | c | q | u | i | r | e
- Bigram
- ac | cq | qu | ui | ir | re
- Trigram
- acq | cqu | qui | uir | ire
- Quadrigram
- acqu | cqui | quir | uire
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);
"He grew a beard";
"The patient developed abdominal pains"; - take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;
"His voice took on a sad tone";
"The story took a new turn";
"he adopted an air of superiority";
"She assumed strange manners";
"The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" - gain through experience;
"I acquired a strong aversion to television";
"Children must develop a sense of right and wrong";
"Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position";
"develop a passion for painting" - acquire or gain knowledge or skills;
"She learned dancing from her sister";
"I learned Sanskrit";
"Children acquire language at an amazing rate" - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;
"She got a lot of paintings from her uncle";
"They acquired a new pet";
"Get your results the next day";
"Get permission to take a few days off from work" - win something through one's efforts;
"I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese";
"Gain an understanding of international finance" - locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar
Synonym | Definition |
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Absorb | cause to become one with "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" |
Accept | tolerate or accommodate oneself to "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions" "I swallowed the insult" "She has learned to live with her husband''s little idiosyncracies" |
Accomplish | put in effect "carry out a task" "execute the decision of the people" "He actioned the operation" |
Accrue | grow by addition "The interest accrues" |
Accumulate | collect or gather "Journals are accumulating in my office" "The work keeps piling up" |
Achieve | to gain with effort "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" |
Acknowledge | accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne" "We do not recognize your gods" |
Acquire | come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) "He grew a beard" "The patient developed abdominal pains" |
Actualise | represent or describe realistically |
Actualize | represent or describe realistically |
View all cognitive synonyms for Acquire
Anagram | Definition |
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Acquire | come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) "He grew a beard" "The patient developed abdominal pains" |
View English words with the unique letters used in acquire. Words With The Letters Aceiqru
Word | Definition |
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Acquiring | the act of acquiring something "I envied his talent for acquiring" "he''s much more interested in the getting than in the giving" |
Development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency" "they funded research and development" |
Getting | the act of acquiring something "I envied his talent for acquiring" "he''s much more interested in the getting than in the giving" |
Growing | (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state |
Growth | the gradual beginning or coming forth "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" |
Maturation | (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus |
Ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
Ontogeny | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
Word | Definition |
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Change | the action of changing something "the change of government had no impact on the economy" "his change on abortion cost him the election" |
Word | Definition |
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Cut | an unexcused absence from class; "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class" |
Feather | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls |
Fledge | grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already" |
Get Up | |
Leaf | hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) |
Pod | a detachable container of fuel on an airplane |
Pupate | develop into a pupa; "the insect larva pupate" |
Regrow | grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption; "parts of the trunk of this tree can regrow"; "some invertebrates can regrow limbs or their tail after they lost it due to an injury" |
Spring | a light springing movement upwards or forwards |
Sprout | a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) |
View All Hyponyms For Acquire
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Acquirer (8 letters) | 19 +1 | 21 +1 | acquirer | ||
Acquire (7 letters) | 18 | 20 | acquire | ||
Reacquire (9 letters) | 20 +2 | 22 +2 | aceeiqrru |
Acquire Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With A
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters