sibling
/ˈsɪbɫɪŋ/
nounone's brother or sister
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1. And siblings often fight!
2. Siblings always compete for the love of their parents.
3. You have siblings?
4. - Does your character have siblings?
5. So you guys are siblings?
spouse
/ˈspaʊs/
nouna male or female partner in a marriage
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1. And so spouses were workmates rather than soul mates.
2. Oftentimes, one spouse dies.
3. Actually, when each spouse dies.
4. Their spouses get along quite well.
5. So your spouse is the number one target.
adolescence
/ˌædəˈɫɛsəns/, /ˌædoʊˈɫɛsəns/
nouna period in one's life between puberty and adulthood
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1. Those deaf people discover community somehow in adolescence.
2. And furthermore, these executive functions are undergoing their most rapid development during adolescence.
3. We have invented adolescence.
4. My adolescence was spent during the German occupation of France.
5. Cyclothymia usually starts during adolescence.
toddler
/ˈtɑdɫɝ/
nouna young child who is starting to learn how to walk
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1. On top of that, Bertha’s friends would fuss over him as a toddler and compliment his skin wherever he went.
2. Even toddlers are more communicative.
3. Toddlers are the devil.
4. That noise means toddlers!
5. Toddlers love this game.
bond
/ˈbɑnd/
nouna relationship formed between people or groups based on mutual experiences, ideas, feelings, etc.
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1. Those two discrete eras give Bonds a striking list of achievements and accolades.
2. Bonds had famous blowups and dugout brawls.
3. Bonds produced.
4. Bonds had absolutely obliterated a pitch from K-Rod.
5. Bonding the river?
fatherhood
/ˈfɑðɝˌhʊd/
nounthe state of being a father to a child or children
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1. Fatherhood calm you down?
2. Pat: Fatherhood is complicated!
3. Fatherhood is hard.
4. Fatherhood changed me dramatically.
5. Or fatherhood, or parenthood, comes at everyone in different ways.
brotherhood
/ˈbɹəðɝˌhʊd/
nounthe relationship between two or more brothers
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1. Early in their careers, a marketing department linked the two sluggers in brotherhood.
2. This murder perfectly replicates Hughes' death from Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
3. We had a brotherhood.
4. Our channel is about brotherhood between Marco and I
5. - I could sense the brotherhood.
motherhood
/ˈməðɝˌhʊd/
nounthe state of being a mother to a child or children
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1. Motherhood, that’s hard work.
2. I botched up motherhood.
3. Sometimes motherhood doesn't always mean fun.
4. Motherhood transformed Kathie Lee Gifford's life.
5. For Bündchen, motherhood was utterly transformative.
childhood
/ˈtʃaɪɫdˌhʊd/
nounthe state of being a child
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1. Childhood ruined.
2. The next topic is childhood.
3. Childhood ruined.
4. Childhood is an extremely important time of a child’s life.
5. BuzzFeed quizzes took up my childhood.
pensioner
/ˈpɛnʃənɝ/
nouna retired person who gets an amount of money each month, called pension, usually from the government
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1. The most important moment: Yeltsin was a pensioner at the time.
2. Every time I see a pensioner who can't manage a victim of market forces.
3. Every day, volunteers provide breakfast and lunch for homeless people, for impoverished pensioners and for others who can’t afford to feed themselves.
4. But for one anonymous pensioner in Coventry, England, that dream very nearly became a reality.
5. Interest payments on Government bonds couldn’t be paid and pensioners who relied on bond coupons and dividends suffered.
upbringing
/ˈəpˌbɹɪŋɪŋ/
nounthe way that our parents care for us or teach us to behave in our childhood
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1. - What is your upbringing like?
2. She had a spartan upbringing.
3. She had a spartan upbringing.
4. Now, of course, my upbringing had additional benefits.
5. Their upbringing was very, very regimented.
acquaintance
/əˈkweɪntəns/
nouna person whom one knows but is not a close friend
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1. Acquaintances were few.
2. Some people are acquaintances.
3. The tier above this is the acquaintance.
4. Most people have a couple dozen acquaintances.
5. - I know several acquaintances.
conflict
/ˈkɑnfɫɪkt/, /kənˈfɫɪkt/
nounan instance of serious opposition between ideas, values, or interests
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1. Conflict ended.
2. At the same time, every organization has conflict.
3. Immediately address conflict.
4. Conflict is.
5. Others do cause conflict.
mother-in-law
/ˈməðɝɪnˌɫɔ/
nounsomeone who is the mother of a person's wife or husband
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1. My mother-in-law has two mops.
2. Yeah your mother-in-law made your bear coat.
3. Tell off your mother-in-law.
4. Bring your mother-in-law.
5. My mother-in-law had lung cancer.
father-in-law
/ˈfɑðɝɪnˌɫɔ/
nounsomeone who is the father of a person's wife or husband
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1. - My father-in-law is Steve.
2. - My father-in-law grows these amazing tomatoes. -
3. My father-in-law actually sometimes has back spasms.
4. The day after 9/11 Clarence Thomas' father-in-law put a American flag on the balcony of his condo.
5. My father-in-law was a lighthouse keeper on Brier Island.
brother-in-law
/ˈbɹəðɝɪnˌɫɔ/
nounthe person who is the brother of one's spouse
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1. Brother-in-law What’s the most significant word?
2. Brother-in-law What’s the most significant word?
3. My biggest failure was training my brother-in-law.
4. Here comes my brother-in-law.
5. Here comes my brother-in-law.
sister-in-law
/ˈsɪstɝɪnˌɫɔ/
nounthe person who is the sister of one's spouse
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1. My sister-in-law is a surgeon at Stanford.
2. My sister-in-law was a telescope driver at Kitt Peak.
3. My sister-in-law is a gamer.
4. Then, I asked my sister-in-law.
5. My sister-in-law is going to cut my hair.
to adopt
/əˈdɑpt/
verbto take someone's child into one's family and become their legal parent
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1. A number of artists have adopted related strategies, like Yasumasa Murimura, Nikki S. Lee, Yinka Shonibare, and Kallup Linzy.
2. No other state adopted women's suffrage between 1896 and 1910.
3. On July 7, 2017, 122 countries adopted the treaty.
4. The populace here too adopts the alphabet: Greek, Coptic, Arabic.
5. A popular schoolyard staple, this game loosely adopts tennis and baseball rules.
ancestor
/ˈænˌsɛstɝ/
nouna blood relative who lived a long time ago, usually before one's grandparents
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1. I guess ancestors.
2. The ancestors do not-- -
3. Their ancestors also tapped this tree for the poison inside.
4. Long ago our ancestors hunted big animals like leopards, rhinos and tapirs.
5. Their ancestors did.
to annul
/ˈænəɫ/
verbto officially cancel a marriage
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1. Garibaldi had the marriage immediately annulled.
2. Interestingly, shortly before the sentence was carried out on May 19, 1536, her marriage to King Henry was annulled as he claimed that he had never been legally married to her.
3. And accordingly in May of 1533 Cranmer assembled a court, annulled Henry's marriage to Katherine of Aragon.
4. The marriage was annulled in July.
5. It is used to erase the vibratory cellular memory of a particular antigen, thus it annuls the body's allergic response to that antigen altogether.
breakup
/ˈbɹeɪˌkəp/
nounthe end of a relationship or an association
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1. Today's word is breakup.
2. Breakups are hard.
3. With different zip codes, breakups are basically automatic.
4. Breakups are hard.
5. Breakups are arguably one of the worst parts of life for a physical human.
close-knit
/klˈoʊsnˈɪt/
adjective(a group of people) having a strong friendly relationship with shared interests
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1. Raised in a close-knit Muslim community in Bombay, now Mumbai, India, prayer brought Zulfi enormous comfort.
2. This close-knit lifestyle existed before.
3. It is an involuntary conflict within one close-knit ethnic group.
4. Form close-knit human bonds.
5. When Brown finally got the opportunity to meet Wyatt's family, it was very clear that they're very protective of him and they're extremely close-knit.
descendant
/dɪˈsɛndənt/
nounsomeone who shares the same blood with a specific person who lived many years ago
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1. Descendants, any of his future descendants might have claim as Emperor of France or King of France.
2. Her descendants help in our country's ENJOYED.
3. Hendrik Witbooi’s descendants are attending the reception.
4. His descendants sing the praises of his heroism.
5. Descendants of the Strauss family run this business to this day.
custody
/ˈkəstədi/
nounthe legal right to keep a thing or to take care of a person
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1. At least five migrant children have died in government custody since September.
2. Their mother lost custody of the children.
3. Can we have custody?
4. They have shared custody.
5. Celeste ultimately keeps full custody.
nuclear family
/nˈuːklɪɹ fˈæmɪli/
nouna family consisting of two parents and their children, but not any other relatives
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1. The quarks are the nuclear family of particles.
2. Like your nuclear family, it starts right here with Section A, your HBS siblings in some sense.
3. Extended family is different from your nuclear family.
4. A nuclear family is made up of just two generations: a parent or parents and his or her children.
5. So it's not a nuclear family, then?
extended family
/ɛkstˈɛndᵻd fˈæmɪli/
nouna large family group consisting of parents and children that might also include grandparents, aunts, or uncles
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1. Grateful siba come apart of your extended family.
2. Wonderful family, I should say, extended family.
3. An extended family of 12 spotted hyenas.
4. Extended family is different from your nuclear family.
5. The extended family system pools its resources together.
blended family
/blˈɛndᵻd fˈæmɪli/
nouna family in which the parents live with the children from their own relationship along with the children from previous ones
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1. This is a blended family, two kids from the first marriage, two kids from the second marriage.
2. The couple enjoy their blended family consisting of Mallory's three sons from his first marriage, Alex, Mason, and Winston, and the politician's two daughters from her first marriage, Sydney and Sherry.
3. If done right, blended families can be amazing.
4. The marriage also created a blended family, as Frankel has three sons from a previous relationship.
5. - Blended family and chosen families.
generation
/ˌdʒɛnɝˈeɪʃən/
nouna group of people of about the same age partaking in a certain activity
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1. This is in large part, due to home equity being bequeathed from one generation to the next.
2. But DNA crosses generations.
3. But the real damage would come generations later.
4. And millennials are voting generations.
5. Genes skip generations.
godparent
/ɡˈɑːdpɛɹənt/
nounsomeone who takes responsibility and raises someone else's child in Christian faith
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1. So he gets the privilege of having two awesome fairy godparents, Cosmo, and Wanda, who are not perfect at their jobs.
2. Who's gonna be the godparent?
3. As royal expert Victoria Arbiter explained, the child will likely have godparents who are outside the immediate family.
4. In fact, Katie Nicholl had one particularly glamorous morsel to share with Access: "This child could have the most star-studded godparents in royal history."
5. Whenever a new royal baby is on the way, there's a lot of speculation about prospective godparents.
to inherit
/ˌɪnˈhɛɹət/
verbto receive money, property, etc. from someone after their demise
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1. Tague definitely inherited a company in a mess.
2. Women inherited the land of our husbands.
3. Now both sections inherit this background object here.
4. Middle sons would inherit lands between the extremities.
5. Gigi's little sister, Bella Hadid, also inherited the family talent.
kinship
/ˈkɪnˌʃɪp/
nounthe relationship between the members of a family
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1. The other main source of altruism is kinship.
2. But fungi do have a kinship with horror stories.
3. I felt a kinship to that.
4. Ties of kinship are very important.
5. Anse right here is claiming kinship with the snake.
orphan
/ˈɔɹfən/
nouna child whose parents have died
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1. Next movie is Orphan, another thriller.
2. - Adopting orphans.
3. They used orphans this time.
4. To orphan one little wizard baby?
5. The orphan has had her fill.
stepparent
/stˈɛpɛɹənt/
nounsomeone who is married to either one of our parents but is not our real parent
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1. Yes, I'm a Yankee, but both of my stepparents grew up in the South, so my first introduction to the Southern table was when I was about 16 years old and biscuits was always a part of it.
2. Navigating a relationship with a new stepparent is a significant undertaking for any child, and one that is not always guaranteed to be easy.
divorcee
/dəˈvɔɹˌseɪ/, /dəˈvɔɹˌsi/
nounsomeone whose marriage is legally ended; a divorced person
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1. - a grizzled divorcee at 18 that's hilarious.
2. ALISON HAISLIP: I am Betty Capozzi, new divorcee, obviously.
3. A divorcee couldn't even enter the Royal enclosure at Royal Ascot, never mind marry a royal princess.
4. They're looking for single divorcees.
5. Meghan's status as a divorcee was also groundbreaking.
