Acquired and Picked up

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Acquired adjective - Gotten through environmental forces.

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Picked up and acquired are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Picked up" instead an adjective "Acquired".

Nearby Words: acquirement, acquiring, acquirer

Picked up adjective - Being clean and in good order.

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Acquired and picked up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acquired" instead an adjective phrase "Picked up".

Blair Sandburg in The Sentinel has some odd skills learned on summer jobs, or acquired from his free-spirited mother's various lovers, or picked up in his anthropological/archaeological studies.

Source: Expansion Pack Past
The investigative skills he acquired as apprentice to a detective frequently prove more useful than the ones he'd picked up as a student wizard.

Source: Boxing Lessons for Superman
As do Glamdring and Orcrist, the swords Gandalf and Thorin acquired at the same time Bilbo picked up Sting in the Hobbit.

Source: The Little Detecto

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