Anagrams of: PREACQUAINTING

• cause to come to know personally

• make familiar or conversant with

• inform

• the act of acquiring something

• To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise.

• a tart spicy quality

• the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting

• a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease

• isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease

• place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons

• an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)

• a serious examination and judgment of something

• appraise critically