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Relationships
EP1 M2 SEM2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| love at first sight | love began the first time they saw each other |
| fell head over heels in love | fell deeply and madly in love |
| only has eyes for | is only attracted to |
| infatuated with | romantically obsessed with |
| besotted with | almost stupidly or blindly in love with |
| platonic relationship | affectionate relationship between two people of the opposite sex that it not sexual |
| hit it off | liked each other the moment we met |
| soulmates | people who feel close in spirit and understand each other deeply |
| a man after my own heart | someone you admire because they do or think the same as you |
| get on like a house on fire | have a very good, enjoyable relationship |
| bosom friends | very close, good friends |
| inseparable | always want to be together |
| bond | relationship |
| kindred spirits | very similar to |
| well-matched | perfect for each other |
| family ties | relationship with family |
| mutual acquaintances | knowing several people someone else does as well |
| holds her in high regard | has a lot of respect for |
| as thick as thieves | they share all their secrets |
| adoring/adoration | showing very strong love for someone |
| affectionate/affection | showing feeling of liking or love |
| amiable, amiability | pleasant and friendly |
| considerate/consideration | kind and helpful |
| faithful/faithfulness | firm and not changing in your friendship with or support for a person or an organization, or in your belief in your principles: |
| fond/fondness | to like someone or something very much |
| loyal/loyalty | firm and not changing in your friendship with or support for a person or an organization, or in your belief in your principles: |
| two-faced towards | insincere |
| allies | countries or people who join together to fight for a common cause |
| business partners | people who own a business together |
| bitter/arch rivals | people in competition with each other in a negative, aggressive way |
| sworn enemies | people who will always hate each other |
| break down | collapse |
| genuine misunderstandings | not understanding something correctly |
| rift develop | serious disagreement that divides people |
| discord | disagreement and discontent |
| don't see eye to eye | have different opinions |
| been on bad terms | have a poor relationship |
| turned sour | become bad |
| split up | separate |
| has had its ups and downs | had good and bad times |
| bumpy relationship | up and down like a car on a road with bumps |
| broken home | family split up by divorce |
| family feud | quarrel in a family causing bad feelings for many years |
| casual acquaintances | people you know, but not very well |
| behind their backs | when they are not here |
| crave | want very strongly |
| thirst | feel very strongly that you want |
| yearns to | wanting something that you do not have and probably cant have |
| coveted | to want to possess it very much |
| defuse | make a dangerous or tense situation calmer |
| placate | stop someone feeling angry |
| conciliate | end a disagreement between two people or groups by acting in a friendly way towards both sides |
| appeasing | end a disagreement by giving the other side an advantage that they are demanding |
| exultant | feeling great pleasure and happiness, usually because of a success |
| ecstatic | feeling great pleasure and happiness, usually because of a success |
| to rejoice | be extremely happy |
| jubilant | expressing great happiness |
| bliss | perfect happiness |
| full of the joys of spring | smiling all the time |
| thrilled to bits | very excited |
| i feel on top of the world | its great |
| floating/walking on air | very happy |
| over the moon | extremely happy |
| antipathy | a feeling of strong dislike or opposition |
| aversion | a feeling of intense dislike or an unwillingness to do something |
| loathing | intense hatred |
| abhorrence | intense disgust |
| scorn | lack of respect for something |
| irritation | a feeling of being extremely upset or worried |
| alarm | a feeling of being very worried or frightened |
| offhand | showed a rude lack of interest in others |
| officious | too eager to tell others what to do |
| ostentatious | displaying wealth or possessions in a vulgar way |
| pompous | too formal and showing that you think that you are more important than other people |
| pretentious | tries to appear more serious or important than she is |
| puerile | silly and childish |
| sloppy | not taking care in the way you work |
| fickle | changes her feelings suddenly without reason |
| nit-picking | too concerned about unimportant details |
| obnoxious | unpleasant and rude |
| dejected | unhappy and disappointed |
| forlorn | sad, alone and not cared for |
| devastated | very shocked and upset |
| distraught | extremely worried and upset |
| down | unhappy |
| miserable | very unhappy |
| pregnancy | nine month period when a woman is expecting a baby |
| conception | time when sperm and egg meet and a baby starts to form |
| fertilised | made to start developing into new life |
| embryo | developing baby |
| implants | fixes itself |
| womb or uterus | organ inside the mother where the fertilised egg develops into a baby |
| conceive | become pregnant |
| fertility drugs | drugs that help a woman to become pregnant |
| IVF | in vitro fertilisation, process that fertilises a woman's egg in a laboratory |
| foetus | what the embryo developing into the uterus is known as from eight weeks onward |
| placenta | organ connecting the developing baby to the mother and giving it food |
| goes into labour | goes into the last stage of pregnancy, where the womb starts the process of pushing the baby out of the body |
| be induced | be helped medically to start the process |
| give birth | have her baby |
| midwife | person medically trained to help women when they are giving birth |
| deliver | help the mother to give birth |
| caesarean section | operation in which the mother's abdomen and womb are cut open to allow the baby to be removed |
| ripe old age | living well into old age |
| late | now dead |
| pensioner | elderly person receiving money from working so long |
| sheltered accomodation | special housing, usually for old people |
| doddery | weak and unable to walk well |
| gaga | unable to think clearly because of old age |
| have all her wits about her | is still able to think and react quickly |
| dementia | an illness that causes problems with memory loss |
| coffin | box where the dead person is put |
| wake | gathering of family and friends after a funeral |
| will | legal document saying what is to happen to your possessions after death |
| ashes | remains of a body after cremation |
| mourning | expressing sadness after someone's death |
| cremation | service at a place called a crematorium, where a dead body is burnt |
| scattered | spread around |
| condolences/sorry for your loss | expressions of sympathy |
| to pass away, to pass on, to pass over | euphemisms for to die |
| to be at death's door, to be on your last legs | expressions for being close to death |
| fatalities | dead people |
| perished | died |
| slaughtered | violently killed |
| the deceased | the dead person |
| to bequeath | to leave something in a will |
| to inherit | to receive something from someone who has died |
| intestate | without having made a will |
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