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

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