Unit 1: Family Life Vocabulary

Basic vocabulary terms and definitions related to family life, including roles, responsibilities, and common household activities.

Achievement

Something done successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill.

Appreciate

To recognize the full worth of something or to be grateful for it.

Benefit

An advantage or profit gained from something.

Bond

A close connection joining two or more people together.

Breadwinner

The person in a household who earns the money to support the family.

Celebrate

To acknowledge a significant or happy day or event with a social gathering or enjoyable activity.

Character

The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.

Cheer up

To cause someone to become happier or to become happier oneself.

Choice

An act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.

Cook

The act of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients.

Damage

To inflict physical harm on something so as to impair its value, appearance, or usefulness.

Difficulty

A thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand.

Discuss

To talk about something with another person or group of people.

Divide

To separate or be separated into parts.

Fair

Treating people equally without favoritism or discrimination.

Gratitude

The quality of being thankful and ready to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Grocery

Items of food in a grocery store; food and other merchandise sold by a grocer.

Grow up

To advance to maturity and become an adult.

Heavy lifting

The act of lifting heavy objects; work that is physically or mentally demanding.

Homemaker

A person, especially a housewife, who manages a home.

Honest

Free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere.

Household chore

A routine task, such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping, performed within a home.

Housework

The work that you do to keep a house clean and tidy.

Instead of

In place of; as a substitute for.

Laundry

Clothes, towels, and sheets that need to be washed or that have been newly washed.

Life skill

A skill that is necessary or very useful in everyday life.

List

A number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively.

Manage

To handle or direct with a degree of skill; to succeed in doing something difficult.

Manner

A way in which a thing is done or happens; a person's outward bearing or way of behaving.

Prepare

To make something ready for use or consideration.

Put out

To place something outside, such as rubbish for collection.

Raise

To care for and bring up a child or animal to maturity.

Respect

A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.

Responsibility

The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or having control over someone.

Result

A consequence, effect, or outcome of something.

Routine

A sequence of actions regularly followed.

Rubbish

Waste material; refuse or litter.

Spotlessly

In a manner that is perfectly clean or without any marks.

Strengthen

To make or become stronger.

Success

The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.

Support

To give assistance to or back up someone or something.

Task

A piece of work to be done or undertaken.

Truthful

Telling or expressing the truth; honest.

Value

The importance, worth, or usefulness of something.

Washing-up

The act of washing dishes, cutlery, and other kitchen utensils after a meal.