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 woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried

a man whose spouse is dead and has not remarried

a person from whom someone is descended, especially one who lived many generations ago

a person descended from a particular ancestor

money or property left to someone in a will

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 of families or communities connected by shared ancestry, culture, language, traditions, or leadership

the legal process of taking another person's child into one's family 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