Preposition: with

• terminology: You do not need to be familiar with medical terminology.

• concept: Also, you should be familiar with the basic concepts surrounding postmodernism.

• aspect: With Human Sciences, no student who begins the course will be familiar with all aspects of it.

• terrain: If you are traveling in mountainous areas become familiar with the terrain and the hazards involved, including avalanche potential.

• literature: The book of Revelation only seems strange to us because we are not familiar with apocalyptic literature.

• procedure: All staff should be familiar with the fire evacuation procedure.

Modifying Another Word

• strangely: They may be a long way from home, but the surroundings are strangely familiar: the honesty, the passion.

• vaguely: His dark muted scenes seem vaguely familiar, distant, like haunting memories.

• depressingly: Many of these are depressingly familiar to militant workers around the world.

Modifies a noun

• surroundings: Care at Home Most people prefer to stay in their own home for as long as possible, living independently in familiar surroundings.

• face: Four Gigs in April, nice to meet up with some familiar faces along the way.

• sight: Saturday morning arrived and I looked out of the window, only to be greeted with the familiar sight of rain.

• territory: With ' What Dreams ' we return once more to more familiar territory with a more traditional soft rock style.

• landmark: This is a " directionally oriented mental representation of the distribution of familiar landmarks " .

• tune: Suddenly, as with one voice, they burst forth into a song in a familiar tune but in unknown tongues.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Students will become familiar with the database software package Microsoft Access.

• seem: To start with, the pupils seemed less familiar with these animals than I would have expected.

• sound: What now sounds familiar was honed in the States in the 1950s.

• look: The music is the same, the setting is the same and even the scenery looks familiar.

• feel: It felt weirdly familiar: it felt like I was home.