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Touchstone 3 - Unit 4 Words and Expressions
Family life, gripes about family members and household rules, memories of growing up
- absolutely - completely
- ask - to say something to someone as a question which you want them to answer
- definitely - without a doubt; in a precise way
- exactly - used when you are giving or asking for information that is completely correct
- extend - to make something bigger or longer
- extended family - your family including grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and sometimes more distant relatives
- get - to obtain or buy something
- gripe - to complain, often in an annoying way
- have - to own something
- married - in a legal relationship with someone as their husband or wife
- pressure - to try to force someone to do something by arguing, persuading, etc.
- sibling - a brother or sister
- tease - to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset them
- used to - when a particular thing always happened or was true in the past, especially if it no longer happens or is no longer true
- would - used to talk about things in the past that happened often or always