familiar

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Aware
abreast
acquainted
alive
alive to somethingidiom
awakening
have/keep your finger on the pulseidiom
hyper-aware
hyper-awareness
hyper-conscious
informed
omnisciently
on the ballidiom
on the insideidiom
over-informed
overeducated
perceive
profound
pulse
with it
wonky

conversant | American Dictionary

conversant
adjective
us/kənˈvɜr·sənt/
familiar with, having experience of, or knowing:
She’s conversant with US foreign policy.
John’s conversant in Mandarin (= can use it in conversation.)

Examples of conversant

conversant
We need to be more conversant with the dynamic exercise of, interaction of, and communicative import of feelings.
The authors begin in what is, at least for those conversant with disability studies, familiar territory.
The text is, however, frequently very dense, and speaks to readers conversant in political economy or economic sociology approaches to value chains.
Most of the authors, unfortunately, do not appear to be all that conversant with writings on globalisation and transnationalism in the last decade or so.
First, architectural history must become more conversant with the analytic techniques of art history.
We found villagers to be conversant with the operational rules concerning forest use.
Here again the account is eminently readable yet clearly conversant with pertinent theoretical issues.
Western researchers and consultants (often not conversant in the local language) may then find such terms being translated back to them.
This process of conversant involvement can only take place as one engages in the physical activity of composition.
Anyone can become fully conversant in the major theories and core findings by reading a few books and a couple of dozen articles.
The audience thus becomes a conversant with the author.
They must be conversant with the key processes and those that should arise from direct experiences or the experiences of others.
Tanaka sees technology as external and with a sense of independent conversant personhood.
Nurses caring for these patients must be conversant about the device indications, implant technique, device technology, follow-up, and finally, the psychosocial aspects of having an implanted device.
The involvement of musicians in a plethora of musical genres and cultures leads to the conclusion that musicians need to be conversant in multiple musical genres.
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