acknowledge, v. 1. admit, grant, allow, accept, recognize, go along with, own, Archaic, agnize; avow, confess, profess, declare, subscribe to; certify, ratify, vouch for; concur, approve, yield, abide by, assent; accede, acquiesce, concede, consent, agree.
2. recognize, notice; address, greet, salute, hail, accost, beckon, nod to, signal to, extend the hand, doff the cap, smile upon.
3. thank, give thanks for, express gratitude for, show appreciation for; requite, recompense, compensate, reward, pay, settle.
acknowledged, adj.admitted, accepted, conceded; recognized, professed, declared, accredited; confessed, avowed, approved,
acknowledgment, n.1. admission, recognition, Archaic, recognizance; affirmation, avowal, profession; declaration, confession; endorsement, ratification, certification; acquiescence, accedence, assent, consent, abidance, concurrence.
2. expression of gratitude, show of appreciation, thanks; reward, tribute, honor; compensation, honorarium, gratuity, recompense, remittance, remuneration, pay, settlement.
3. greeting, salutation, salute, address.
4. response, answer, return, reply, replication,
acme, n.1. summit, apex, vertex, apogee, crest, heights, pinnacle, peak, spire, point, tip, tiptop; top, cap, crown, headpiece, head.
2. zenith, maximum, climax, culmination, crowning point, Latin, ne plus ultra;
meridian, sublimity, supremacy, best, finest, perfection, consummation; extreme, utmost, uttermost, U.S. SI.
the most, U.S. SI. the greatest; prime, heyday, bloom, full flower, blossom, efflorescence,
acquaint, v. Usu.
acquaint with familiarize, make familiar, make conversant; introduce, make known, inform, clue in, advise, notify, apprise, make aware or cognizant, enlighten, let [s.o.] know [s.t.]; impart, communicate, mention, tell; disclose, reveal, divulge, let [s.o.] in on [s.t.].
acquaintance, n.1. colleague, confrere, associate, consociate, compeer, peer; teammate, co-worker, fellow worker; companion, comrade, copain, Inf.pal, Inf.buddy, chum, crony; friend, intimate, familiar; Inf.pickup.
2. social relationship, companionship, fellowship, friendship; affinity, association; intimacy.
3. familiarity, conversance, conversancy, cognizance, awareness, knowledge, understanding.
acquainted, adj.1. Usu.
acquainted with apprised of, informed of, privy to, in on; aware of, alive to, conscious of, cognizant of; conversant with, familiar with, instructed in, knowledgeable in, versed in.
2. mutually known orrecognized; sociable with, friendly with, on good terms with, comfortable with; known to say hello to.
acquiesce, v. (often fol. by
in) assent, consent, concur, agree, accept, Inf.buy, accede; abide by, comply with, conform to; concede, admit, yield, Inf.come round; submit, bow to, give in, take it; acknowledge, recognize, grant, allow; subscribe to, fall in with, join in the chorus, go with the stream,
acquiescence, n.1. consent, assent, abidance, compliance, obedience; agreement, concurrence, accordance; acknowledgment, willingness, sufferance; surrender, resignation, capitulation, submission, yielding, giving in, accedence, concession, nonresistance.
2. subservience, servility, obeisance, ingratiation, subjection, slavishness, abasement, prostration, toadyism; cringing, fawning, bowing, scraping, cowering, truckling, SI.bootlicking, bending; self-renunciation, self-surrender; self-effacement.