Feel
Feel verb - To have a vague awareness of.
Obtain
Obtain verb - To receive as return for effort.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In essence, you could choose to go a certain route and feel you're doing the right thing, and there will always be one person who felt you gave up a little part of yourself to obtain your goal.
Source: Sell Out -
For many viewers, hearing the dialogue in their native language makes it easier to immerse themselves in the media and feel a sense of familiarity with the story and characters that is much harder to obtain while trying to hear dialogue in a foreign language and simultaneously read subtitles.
Source: Subbing vs. Dubbing -
He began to feel that admiring deference which most young men experience when conversing with a very pretty girl: a sort of desire to obtain her good opinion in a manner very different to his old familiar friendliness.
Source: Literature / Wives and Daughters
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