familiarise

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Familiarise is the British spelling of familiarize—to make someone or something familiar.

You familiarise yourself with a new city by walking its streets, or familiarise new employees with company procedures.

The reflexive form dominates: I need to familiarise myself with the software before the meeting.

educate

learn

Acquire knowledge or skill

teach · instruct · brief · acquaint · apprise · educate · school · tutor · coach · train

acclimate

adjust

Change to fit better

get used to · settle in · assimilate · attune · acclimate · habituate · condition · inure · naturalize · orient

introduce

acquaint

Make someone aware

make known · orientation · induction · onboarding · initiation · icebreaker · networking · greeting · welcome · reception

master

understand

Grasp the meaning

know · expertise · proficiency · fluency · command · competence · knowledge · cognizance · awareness · insight

Opposites
knowledge/acquaintance

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Cause emotional separation

mystify · confuse · obscure · bewilder · alienate

relational closeness

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Cause emotional separation

alienate · distance · separate · detach · isolate

Family

familiarity, familiarize, familiarized, familiarizing, familiarising, familiarised, familiarizes, familiarises, familiarisation

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