Check your english vocabulary for rawdon Wyatt

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A.
1. nuclear 2. extended 3. single-parent 4. bring up (we can also use the words 
raise
or 
rear
) 5. upbringing
6. divorced 7. childcare 8. adolescence (the noun is 
adolescent
) 9. formative 10. birth rate 11. dependant (the
adjective is 
dependant
) 12. juvenile delinquency (in Britain, a juvenile is anybody below the age of 18, which is the
age at which somebody becomes legally responsible for their own actions) 
B.
1. H (
authoritarian
can be a noun and an adjective) 2. C 3. G 4. K 5. A 6. D 7. J (we can also use the expression
over-caring
) 8. B 9. E 10. F 11. I 12. L
C.
1. formative 2. divorced 3. brought up 4. foster family (a child who is raised by a foster family is called a 
foster
child
. The verb is 
to foster
) 5. authoritarian 6. upbringing 7. running wild 8. adolescence 
9. juvenile delinquency 10. responsible 11. siblings 12. well-adjusted 13. lenient 14. over-protective
15. nuclear 16. single-parent 17. dependants 18. extended

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