Ready for IELTS reading p. 153-154

the relationship between members of the same family (n.)

• related

• kinship

• close

• familial

a disaster; a serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering (n.)

• horror

• storm

• hazard

• calamity

an occasion when something starts (n.)

• initiation

• welcome

• ceremony

• celebration

to be more important (than something else) (colloc.)

• win over

• take over

• take precedence

• be victorious

a way of doing something in which the same actions are done in the same way every time (n.)

• ritual

• ceremony

• habit

• cremation

at a suitable time in the future (colloc.)

• move forward with

• at ease with

• in good time

• in due course

existing or happening now, and therefore seeming modern (adj.)

• didactic

• ephemeral

• updated

• contemporary

a person with responsibility for protecting or taking care of something (n.)

• custodian

• overseer

• unfortunate

• taskmaster

advice (n.)

• recommendation

• counsel

• reference

• council

someone who makes a judgment, solves an argument, or decides what will be done (n.)

• influencer

• critic

• arbiter

• monitor