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acquaint
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  • You will become …. closely acquainted …. with the Prison Room.  (source)
    acquainted = familiar
  • I'm so glad we have this chance to become acquainted, Mrs. Baumbach.  (source)
    acquainted = familiar (with each other)
  • The boys I'm acquainted with are vastly uninteresting.  (source)
    acquainted = familiar with
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  • For those of us well acquainted with Mamaw's generosity, her financial position came as no surprise.  (source)
    acquainted = familiar
  • You'll want to acquaint yourself with the equipment.†  (source)
    acquaint = inform (cause to know)
  • But I understood you to say, Lady Celia, that you were unacquainted with him.†  (source)
    unacquainted = not familiar with
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unacquainted means not and reverses the meaning of acquainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I'll console Mr. Edgar by acquainting him with the turn Heathcliff's humour has taken.†  (source)
    acquainting = familiarizing with
  • He dwells more at large upon the prophecies of Proteus to him in his return; from which he acquaints Telemachus that Ulysses is detained in the island of Calypso.†  (source)
    acquaints = introduces or familiarizes
  • Be my companions, my helpers and my friends; once more, I add, for haven't we been well-acquainted in the past?  (source)
    acquainted = familiar (with  each other)
  • Kindly acquaint us with our ...honored guests.†  (source)
    acquaint = inform (cause to know)
  • Mrs. Fisher had not specified the line her friend was to take; she owned herself unacquainted with Mrs. Hatch, whom she "knew about" through Melville Stancy, a lawyer in his leisure moments, and the Falstaff of a certain section of festive dub life.†  (source)
    unacquainted = not familiar with
  • 2:3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.†  (source)
    acquainting = familiarizing with
  • I don't know for certain, and I'm sorry to say I haven't had an opportunity of finding out all day; but I received a letter from Moscow, while I was in Switzerland, from a Mr. Salaskin, and he acquaints me with the fact that I am entitled to a very large inheritance.†  (source)
    acquaints = introduces or familiarizes
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