She acquired the painting at a jumble sale for the princely sum of 25p.
When she married Giles, she acquired a ready-made family - two teenage sons and a daughter.
I didn't like red wine before but I acquired a taste for it while I was living in France.
He acquired a reputation as an entertaining speaker.
The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée.
So, such representations could only be acquired as identical (' homophonous ').
The first layer to be removed is an acquired political habit.
