Talking About Your Family

Collocations For Talking About Your Family

Let’s begin our study of collocations by learning some common expressions about the family. Your parents and siblings (brothers and sisters) are your immediate family – and your extended family includes all your relatives – uncles, cousins, great-aunts, etc.

VocabularyTest

Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word. 

(gross, gratuitous, gripes, grotesque, gratify, gravitate, graceful, graft)

1. The apples gave him the ……………….

2. The supervisor wouldn’t listen to the workers’ ……………….

Vocabulary builder

Decadent – corrupt, immoral, debauched

Deceitful – insincere, hypocritical, deceptive, dishonest

Debilitate – weaken, make feeble, deprive of strength

Affect vs. Effect & More...

Source: www.grammarcheck.net

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Synonyms Test

From the given options find the word that means the same as the underlined word.

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