Acquire and Retrieve

Acquire

Acquire verb - To come to have gradually.

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Retrieve and acquire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Retrieve" instead a verb "Acquire".

Retrieve verb - Get or find back; recover the use of.

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Acquire and retrieve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acquire" instead a verb "Retrieve".

heart	acquire heart	retrieve heart
soul	acquire soul	retrieve soul
body	acquire body	retrieve body
treasure	acquire treasure	retrieve treasure
Other words: parts, piece, gear, equipment, item, money, information, book, key, ring, evidence, weapon, items, sword, gun, artifact, pieces, weapons, artifacts, MacGuffin.

Pet Interface: You acquire a mouse and train it to retrieve small objects for you.

Source: Videogame / Dark Tales
Link goes on an adventure to acquire three Cosmic Keystones so he can retrieve the Master Sword, which ends up locking him in another dimension.

Source: Same Plot Sequel
Whole Episode Flashback: Jonathan Small confesses after he's caught, and tells a long story towards the end in which he explains how he came to acquire the treasure and how Morstan and Sholto became involved in the plot to retrieve it.

Source: Literature / The Sign of the Four

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