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  1. Gained by personal exertion

    reached, attained, gained, won, accomplished, learned, adopted, earned, collected, gathered, secured, procured, obtained, captured, seized, drawn, harvested, regained, retrieved, realized, got by the sweat of one's brow, dug out, raked in, cornered, netted, grabbed; see also won.

  2. Gained without special exertion

    given, accrued, derived, granted, endowed, transmitted, adapted to, conveyed to, inherited, handed down, bequeathed, ceded, allowed, awarded, passed on, willed to.

    Antonyms forfeited, deprived, lost.

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