| 单词 | reacquaint |
| 释义 | reacquaint (once / 94555 pages) v To reacquaint is to get to know someone again, or to become familiar with something once more. If you move back to Boston after several years in Tokyo, you might have to reacquaint yourself with the subway system. When you meet your best kindergarten pal again after years apart, you're going to have to reacquaint yourselves. And if you haven't ridden a bike for ten years, you'll need some time to reacquaint yourself with riding before you can ride on the street with confidence. Reacquaint adds the Latin-derived prefix re-, "again or anew," to acquaint, from the Vulgar Latin accognitare, "to make known." WORD FAMILYreacquaint: reacquainted, reacquainting, reacquaints+/acquaint: acquaintance, acquainted, acquainting, acquaints, reacquaint/acquaintance: acquaintances, acquaintanceship/acquaintanceship: acquaintanceships/acquainted: unacquainted USAGE EXAMPLESShe said that after the Obamas leave the White House she plans to relax and get reacquainted with relatives. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) Reacquaint yourself with how the performance appraisal is conducted to equip yourself with the information you might need. Seattle Times(Nov 27, 2016) After many trips farther afield, we decided it was time to reacquaint ourselves with our neighbor to the north. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) v familiarize anew We reacquainted ourselves with this technique Hyper acquaint, familiarise, familiarize make familiar or conversant with |
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