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Your r________ are the members of your family.Your relatives are the members of your family.
Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia?
Get a relative to look after the children.
word relative
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noun
Your relatives are the members of your family.
Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia?
Get a relative to look after the children.
If one animal, plant, language, or invention is a relative of another, they have both developed from the same type of animal, plant, language, or invention.
The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
adjective
You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind .
The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm.
It is a cancer that can be cured with relative ease.
Pedestrian zones mean that children can play in relative safety.
You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things.
They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live.
I reflected on the relative importance of education in 50 countries.
...the relative strength of the central and state governments.
If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things.
Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'.
Truth is relative.
inflections relatives
cefr-level B1

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