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FAMILIARISE
familiarize, familiarise, acquaint
(verb) make familiar or conversant with; “you should acquaint yourself with your new computer”; “We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
familiarise (third-person singular simple present familiarises, present participle familiarising, simple past and past participle familiarised)
Non-Oxford British standard spelling of familiarize.
Source: Wiktionary
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18 January 2025
SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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