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acquainted

 adjective
     
ac‧quaint‧ed [not before noun]
1 if you are acquainted with someone, you have met them a few times but do not know them very well
acquainted with
Were you acquainted with a friend of mine, Daniel Green?
We would like to get better acquainted.
2 formal

be acquainted with something

to know about something, because you have seen it, read it, used it etc:
She was well acquainted with classical literature.
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