Vocab Lesson 3
Terms
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- familial
- having to do with the family
- matrix
- the surroundings within which something begins or develops
- avuncular
- like an uncle
- patrimony
- a family inheritance
- patronymic
- a name derived from a paternal ancestor
- matriculate
- to register as a student at a college or university
- fraternize
- to be friendly with OR to socialize with an enemy population
- monogamy
- marriage to a single mate
- patronage
- support; encouragement OR business clientele; customers
- patriarch
- the male head of a family or tribe OR an Old Testament ancestor OR a founding father or wise man
- bigamy
- marriage to two mates
- matriarchy
- a society ruled or controlled by women
- fraternal
- pertaining to brothers; brotherly
- uxorious
- dominated by one's wife
- patronize
- to go to regularly OR to treat someone as an inferior