Relatives Vocab
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- Filial
- (adj) Cordelia was the only one of King Lear's daughters that showed him _____ affection.
- Genealogy
- (n) Most people can trace their ______ back to a grandparents, or a great-grandparent, but they know almost nothing about their earlier ancestors.
- Sibling
- (n) Eileen has three ____s - two younger brothers and an older sister.
- Kith and kin
- (pl. n) Because he married in a distant state, the solider had few of his ____ at the wedding.
- Neoptism
- (n) Whenever a President appoints a relative to a government position, the cry of _____ is raised by the opposition party.
- Fraternal
- (adj) There was much ________ affection between the brothers; they were devoted to one another.
- Maternal
- (adj) The kindergarten teacher has a kindly, _____ concern for each pupil.
- Gentility
- (n) 1) George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION shows how a cockney flower girl quickly acquires the _____ necessary to pass as a duchess. 2) The duke scandalized some members of the ______ by marrying a commoner.
- Progenitor
- (n) Adam is the Biblical ______ of the human race.
- Paternal
- (adj) The molding of a child's character is an important maternal and ____ obligation.
- Progeny
- (n) Josiah Franklin's _____ numbered seventeen, the fifteenth being his son Benjamin.