IELTS vocabulary – friends and family part 1

A lifelong friend

• Meet up

• Someone that I care about

• A friend that you have had for most of your life

• Uncles, aunts and cousins form part of the extended family

A relationship of trust

• Someone to sympathize with you

• a connection with another in which you have faith and confidence

• Reach out to someone in a friendly manner

Arrange a dinner date

• Plan to share an evening meal

• A friend that you have lost contact with

A shoulder to cry on

• A shoulder

• Some friends

• Someone to sympathize with you

Close knit family

• A close family with common interests

• A private family

• Reach out to someone in a friendly manner

• A friend that you have had for most of your life

Dear to my heart

• Someone that I love

• Spend to my heart about sth

• A committed relationship between partners

• Someone that I care about

Distant cousins

• Someone that I care about

• Uncles, aunts and cousins form part of the extended family

• My friends

• People who share a common ancestor but are not closely related

Extend the hand of friendship

• Reach out to someone in a friendly manner

• Looking after our relationships with friends

• To make friends

Extended family

• In person

• Uncles, aunts and cousins form part of the extended family

• Spouse, parents, children, grandparents

Face to face

• Difficulties with people with whom we interact regularly

• opposite someone

• In person

• To enjoy spending time with someone