Before the expedition, the team spent a week familiarizing themselves with the navigation equipment.
在探险之前，团队花了一周时间熟悉导航设备。
Which choice best defines “familiarize”?
A — To make someone aware of or comfortable with something. “familiarize” means to make someone aware of or comfortable with something.
Which word means “to make someone aware of or comfortable with something”?
C — familiarize. “familiarize” means to make someone aware of or comfortable with something.
familiarize — to make someone aware of or comfortable with something. In Chinese: 使熟悉.
familiarize is pronounced /fəˈmɪliəraɪz/.
Before the expedition, the team spent a week familiarizing themselves with the navigation equipment. (在探险之前，团队花了一周时间熟悉导航设备。)
acquaint, accustom, orient — all close in meaning to familiarize (to make someone aware of or comfortable with something).
alienate, estrange — each the opposite of familiarize (to make someone aware of or comfortable with something).
Yes. familiarize is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.