Vocabulary for IELTS General Training (Band 6-7) - Family

a person who takes someone else's child and raises them without legally becoming their parent

a child placed in the temporary care of someone other than their biological or adoptive parents

a married woman whose spouse is dead and has not married again

a man whose spouse is dead and has not remarried

a blood relative who lived a long time ago, usually before one's grandparents

someone who shares the same blood with a specific person who lived many years ago

something left behind by a person after they die

a chart, showing the relationship between all the members of a family over a long period of time

all the people living in a house together, considered as a social unit

a social group united by shared ancestry, culture, or customs

the legal act or process of taking someone else's child and raising them as one's own

a child whose parents have died

the quality or fact of being a mother to a child or children

the quality or fact of being a father to a child or children