Acquires is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACQUIRES in dictionary:

VERB:
• ACQUIRE, to come into possession of
• buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself
• learn or develop (a skill, habit, or quality)
• come to have (a particular reputation) as a result of one's behaviour or activities

Words related to ACQUIRES

acquire18 acquired20 acquiring21

Words that contain ACQUIRES

reacquires21

How to use ACQUIRES in a sentence

• This plan is based on the fact that, through continuity of attention and application to a given work, man acquires a special aptitude.
• Modesty is that feeling by which honourable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
• Even falsehood, when sealed with blood, acquires not unfrequently, for a time, an irrepressible power.
• The Government acquires by it a perfect right to insist on its stipulations.
• Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
• A similar film of the gold colored substance, C, treated in the same way, acquires a blue bloom.
• Even the Egyptian Alexas acquires some respectability, from his patriotic attachment to the interests of his country, and from his skill as a wily courtier.
• After two or three years more the male again acquires and retains superiority in weight and height.
• Under rising ill temper the voice acquires a metallic ring.
• Like demonophobia, the worship of incarnate deities is common in eastern Asia but here it acquires an extent and intensity unknown elsewhere.
• It then becomes cloudy from the deposit of resinous matter, produced by the contact of the air, and acquires a turpentine smell.
• The cultivated earth, as the sun advances above the horizon in the morning, acquires from it an intense heat, which is retained and increased through the warm parts of the day.
• By this process it acquires a very remarkable facility in being blackened on a very slight exposure to light, even when the latter is by no means intense.
• The understanding is the power by which man acquires his knowledge of the several kingdoms of creation, and of various stages of existence, as well as of much which is invisible.
• Unless he acquires these forces and attains to these requirements he will surely be deprived of the life that is eternal.
• This is in general true, but it acquires a practical importance in its application to those combats, the object of which is a relative defence.
• The old complaint for the neglect of poetry acquires new life through the dramatic contrast of the two characters in which opposite sides of the poetic temperament are revealed.
• You have no idea, my dear fellow, how one acquires bad habits in these cursed convents, or what evil ways all these men of the church have, with whom I am obliged to live.
• One also acquires the priceless faculty of losing no time in dropping off.
• This sort acquires a very considerable degree of hardness, which the chewing of it sufficiently proves.
• He acquires individuality, though of an inferior kind.
• It presents, in its metallic state, a dark grey powder, which by compression acquires the metallic lustre.

Similar words containing ACQUIRE without suffix s

acquire18 acquired20 acquiree19 acquirer19 acquirees20 acquirers20 reacquire20 reacquired22 reacquires21 acquirement24 acquirements25

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