Obtain and Pick

Obtain

Obtain verb - To receive as return for effort.

Pick and obtain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pick" instead a verb "Obtain".

Nearby Words: obtained, obtainable, obtaining

Pick

Pick verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.

Obtain and pick are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Obtain" instead a verb "Pick".

Nearby Words: pickle, picky, picked, picket, pickup

Common collocations

skill obtain skill pick skill
point obtain point pick point
item obtain item pick item
way obtain way pick way
Other words: cards, weapon, ending, star, card, items, gun, skills, weapons.

Both words in one sentence

  • Purple Is Powerful Also, Obsidian is purple and the strongest destroy-able block in the game, takes longer to mine even with the best pick, and is the hardest to obtain in the overworld.
  • Video Game / Ragnarok Online To obtain the rebirth class, one must get to level 99 and become a High Novice (thus the level reset to 1) and pick the same first and second job classes as the pre-Rebirth one.
  • Video Game / Homeworld In both HW1 and Cataclysm, it is possible to use your salvage units to pick up enemy ships, often ones that you can't build until later or that you can't obtain at all.
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