absent-minded
A person who often forget things or is having or showing an inattentive disposition.
Approachable
Someone who is friendly, so other people find it easy to talk to them.
Bitchy
Someone who often says unkind things about other people behind their backs.
Cynic
Is someone who does not believe that people are good or honest.
Hog
Keep something or use it yourself rather than sharing it with other people.
Laid-back
Someone who is very relaxed and doesn't get angry or upset easily.
Look down on
If you look down on someone, you think that you are better than they are.
Prone
If you are prone to something, you often do it, or it happens to you.
Stand up for
Support something
Strong-willed
Someone who is determined to do something even if other people do not want them to.
Thick-skinned
Someone who is not easily offended or upset when other people criticise them.
Acrimonious
Something that involves a lot of arguing. A speech or debate angry and bitter.
Backdrop
The backdrop to an event is the general situation in which it happens. Background
Burden
Something that you are responsible for or have to deal with.
Chronically
Something that continues to happen over a long period of time.
Comply
yo do what something asks you to do.
Dubious
Something that is not god, safe or honest
File
If you file a legal case, you officially start it and ask for it to happen. Like couples who file for divorce.
Go through
If a legal decision goes through, it is accepted or approved.
Grant
To officially allow something.
Grounds
The reasons for doing something. Like grounds for divorce.
Heir
The person who will get something when someone else dies.
High-profile
Something that gets a lot of attention from the public and press.
Instigate
To start, bring about, initiate a process
Maintenance
An amount of money that someone pays regularly to their former husband or wife after a divorce.
Sanction
To officialy allow something or accept it. Give official permission or approval for an action.
Answer back
If a child answers back, they answer an adult rudely.
Blow over
If an argument blows over, it ends.
To channel
To direct or encourage something in a particular way.
Drift apart
When a relationship gradually ends.
Frail
Someone who is physically weak and not very healthy.
Home
Is a place where people are looked after.
mercy
To be kind to someone and don't hurt or punish them.
Put up with
To accept something unpleasant.
Ruthless
Someone who is determined to get what they want and doesn't worry about hurting or offending other people.
Sake
If you do something for the sake of a person or thing, you do it to help that person or thing, or you do it for no particular reason.
Sibling
Your siblings are your brothers or sisters.
Single out
If you single someone out, you choose them and treat them in a different way.
Thrash
To defeat someone easily
Toddler
A young child who is just learning to walk.
Trait
A quality in someone's character.
Turn out
The way something is in the end.
Unsteady
Something that it is not very stable and is likely to fall.
Be getting on
Someone that is getting quite old.
Be hard work
Someone is hard work when you have to make a lot of effort to have a good relationship with them.
Cover a multitude of sins
To hide individual problems or faults. A sin is literally an action that is considered to be an offense against God.
Full of yourself
To have a very high opinion of yourself
Hit it off
When people get on well with each other.
Not lift a finger
Make not effort at all to help someone with a job. The image is of someone who doesn't move even one finger of their hand to do something.
Not mince your words
When you say exactly what you think even if this might offend or upset people.
Out of the blue
Something that happens very unexpectedly. the image is of something that falls suddenly from the sky
Put your foot down
To say very strongly that someone must do something.
Set your heart on
To very strongly want to have something or do it.
Stab someone in the back
To say or do something that will harm someone when they are not present. If you stab someone in the back literally, you stab them with a knife in their back.
Take it all in your stride
To accept something and deal with it easily. A stride is literally a step that you take, so if you take something in your stride, you keep walking and don't struggle or fall.