Dialogue words you could use instead of the word…

knew

Absorbed

Accepted

Appreciated

Appreciative

Apprehend

Acquaintance

Acquainted

Assimilated

Aware

Awareness

Be acquainted

Be a master of

Be conversant in

Beheld

Be informed

Be learned

Be read

Be schooled

Be versed

Caught

Caught on

Caught on to

Cognised

Compassed

Comprehend

conceived

Cottoned

Cottoned on

Cottoned onto

Cotton to

Data

Deciphered

Deciphered

Differentiated

Dug

Digested

Discerned

Discriminated

Distinguished

Encountered

Endured

Erudition

Evident

Experienced

Expertise

Facts

Familiarity

Fathomed

Felt

Felt certain

Followed

Grasped

Gotten

Gotten the idea

Gone through

Had

Had information

Had knowledge off

Information

Intelligence

Intuit

Kept

Kenned

Know how

Knowledge

Learned

Learnt

Landed

Literate

Lore

Low down

Made

Made out

Met

News

Noticed

On top

Passed

Penetrated

Perceived

Picked up

Picked up on

Pierced

possessed

Prized

Realised

Received

Recognised

Registered

Savvy

Scholarship

Saw

Sensed

Seized

Suffered

Sustained

Took in

Tasted

Tumbled

Tumbled to

Twigged

Undergone

Understood

Wisdom

Witnessed