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Acquisition :: Acquisition (n.) The act or process of acquiring.

Fibrination :: Fibrination (n.) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.

Learn :: Learn (v. i.) To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..

Study :: Study (v. i.) A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge..

Bibliomania :: Bibliomania (n.) A mania for acquiring books.

Outwit :: Outwit (n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit..

Assecution :: Assecution (n.) An obtaining or acquiring.

School :: School (n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets..

Squatter :: Squatter (n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title..

Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

Getting :: Getting (n.) The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

Cadet :: Cadet (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission..

Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

University :: University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property..

Acquirement :: Acquirement (n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment..

Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory..

Accession :: Accession (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf..

Chrestomathy :: Chrestomathy (n.) A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.

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