Vocabulary Word
Word: conversant
Definition: familiar with; having knowledge of
Definition: familiar with; having knowledge of
Sentences Containing 'conversant'
X. Two Promises More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature.
But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way.
Dantes employed it in manoeuvring his yacht round the island, studying it as a skilful horseman would the animal he destined for some important service, till at the end of that time he was perfectly conversant with its good and bad qualities.
``The better reason for my not being conversant with the slang of the bank, which is here dinning in my ears from morning to night; that noise of jingling crowns, which are constantly being counted and re counted, is odious to me.
It was still more impossible to remain in the department of the Oise, one of the most open and strictly guarded in France; this was quite out of the question, especially to a man like Andrea, perfectly conversant with criminal matters.
Remember him also who was ignorant whither the way did lead, and how that reason being the thing by which all things in the world are administered, and which men are continually and most inwardly conversant with: yet is the thing, which ordinarily they are most in opposition with, and how those things which daily happen among them, cease not daily to be strange unto them, and that we should not either speak, or do anything as men in their sleep, by opinion and bare imagination: for then we think we speak and do, and that we must not be as children, who follow their father's example; for best reason alleging their bare successive tradition from our forefathers we have received it.
'My sister Lavinia,' said she 'being conversant with matters of this nature, will state what we consider most calculated to promote the happiness of both parties.'
Their ideas are perpetually conversant in lines and figures.
But my life for it he was either practically conversant with his subject, or else marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman.
More Vocab Words
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::: evocative - tending to call up (emotions, memories)
::: aspirant - seeker after position or status
::: resound - (of a place) be filled with sound; (of a sound) sound loudly; sound back; echo; Ex. hall resounded with laughter
::: atypical - not normal; not typical
::: serendipity - gift for finding valuable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck; CF. The Three Princes of Serendip
::: sundry - miscellaneous; various; several; N. sundries: small miscellaneous items
::: dulcet - sweet sounding; pleasing to the ear; melodious
::: comprehensive - broad; including a lot or everything; thorough; inclusive
