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well-acquainted

adjective

  1. having a good knowledge or understanding of someone or something

    well acquainted with Milton



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Throughout her life, she says, she has been well acquainted with the everyday injustices of gender inequality.

His mother and his father were well-acquainted with a life of crime.

I'm very well acquainted with this experience, as is Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic.

Skip another round of preparations and seminars; you are well acquainted with both parties' personalities and behavioral patterns.

Of course by then, the two were well acquainted with the steep physical toll their love could take.

Meadow Mouse was too well acquainted with old Mr. Crow to get himself into any such fix as that.

They were well-acquainted with the effects of a musket, although not the least alarmed at having one fired off near them.

Of the last and least, my humble self, I need not speak, as with him the reader is well acquainted.

Pocahontas had met and had become well acquainted with John Rolfe during her captivity at Jamestown.

A faint light was thus thrown upon the puddles, and those who were well acquainted with the street could pick their way dryshod.

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