Adopted and Familiar

Adopted

Adopted adjective - Acquired as your own by free choice.

Familiar and adopted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Familiar" instead an adjective "Adopted".

Familiar

Familiar adjective - Closely acquainted.

Adopted and familiar are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adopted" instead an adjective "Familiar".

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / Qatar If you're still not familiar with it, well...it's an ideology that's currently adopted by, ahem, fundamentalist groups such as Taliban and Al-Qaeda...though theirs are obviously ramped Up to Eleven.
  • Franchise / Superman In this book, his adopted parents were named Sarah and Eben, rather than the more familiar Martha and Jonathan.
  • Unhand Them, Villain! In A Family of My Own Ron grabs Harry's kitten familiar (which happens to be his adopted sister's Animagus form) during first year flying lessons and takes off on his broom.
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