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The document discusses various relationship terms and concepts including: looking at other people when in a relationship, ignoring one's partner, dating customs, convincing someone of an idea or proposal, and gossiping about others. It also includes terms related to moods like being delighted, depressed, relieved, or offended. Marriage related terms like bridesmaid, proposing, and marital status are presented.

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The document discusses various relationship terms and concepts including: looking at other people when in a relationship, ignoring one's partner, dating customs, convincing someone of an idea or proposal, and gossiping about others. It also includes terms related to moods like being delighted, depressed, relieved, or offended. Marriage related terms like bridesmaid, proposing, and marital status are presented.

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Wandering eye: to look at other people when one has a significant other.

Accomplishment: something achieved or successfully completed/ achievement, act, attainment, coup, deed, exploit, feat, stroke, triumph To ignore: to fail or refuse to notice; disregard / neglect, overlook, pass over, pay no
attention to, reject. Customary: in accordance with custom or habitual practice; usual; habitual / accepted, accustomed, acknowledged. Appropriate: right or suitable; fitting / opportune, pertinent, proper, relevant, right, seemly, suitable, to the point, to the purpose, well-suited, well-timed. Current affairs: the cultural, political, and social events of importance and interest at the present time Marital status: the condition of being married or unmarried. To sample: to take a sample or samples of something. / experience, inspect, partake of, taste, test, try. Lively: full of life or vigour / ant: apathetic, debilitated, disabled, dull, inactive, lifeless, listless, slow, sluggish, and torpid. Challenge: a call to engage in a fight, argument, or contest / confrontation, dare, defiance, face-off (slang) interrogation, provocation, question, summons to contest, test, trial, ultimatum. To have catered: to provide food, services, etc. / furnish, outfit, provide, provision, purvey, supply, victual. To sign up for: to enlist or cause to enlist, as for military service / engage, enrol, enter (into), gather, join, join up, muster, obtain, procure, recruit, register, secure, sign up, volunteer. To convince: to make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; persuade / assure, bring round, gain the confidence of, persuade, prevail upon, prove to, satisfy, sway, win over. Tragic: characteristic or suggestive of tragedy / anguished, appalling, awful, calamitous, catastrophic, deadly, dire, disastrous, dismal, doleful, dreadful, fatal. Gossip: a person who habitually talks about others, esp. maliciously. Delighted: extremely pleased (to do something) / blissed out, captivated, charmed, cock-a-hoop, ecstatic. Depressed: low in spirits; downcast; despondent / blue, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, discouraged.

1. Flattered: in a positive mood because of a comment or action which causes one to feel proud of oneself. Offended: hurt or upset. / affronted, disgruntled, displeased, huffy, in a huff,
miffed (informal) outraged, pained, piqued, put out (informal) resentful, smarting, stung, upset. Relieved: experiencing relief, esp. from worry or anxiety. / abated, allayed, alleviated, anesthetized, assuaged, diminished, eased, lightened, mitigated, palliated, salved, softened, soothed. To see someone = to date someone(formal): to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of someone /

To propose: to make an offer of marriage (to someone) / ask for someone's hand (in
marriage), offer marriage, pay suit, pop the question. Bridesmaid: a girl or young unmarried woman who attends a bride at her wedding. To have a long face: expression that indicates sadness, depression or unhappiness. To lay (someone) off: to suspend (workers) from employment with the intention of reemploying them at a later date / discharge, dismiss, drop, give the boot to (slang) let go, make redundant, oust, pay off. Indefinitely: without any limit of time or number / ad infinitum, continually, endlessly, for ever, sine die, till the cows come home.

To pick up: Seniority: the state of being senior / eldership, longer service, precedence, priority,
rank, superiority. Outcome: something that follows from an action, dispute, situation, etc.; result; consequence / aftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, end, end result, issue, payoff (informal) result, sequel, upshot. Preserved: To maintain in safety from injury, peril, or harm; protect.

To treat: A valued possession: A view: Prominent: jutting or projecting outwards / bulging, hanging over, jutting, projecting,
protruding, protrusive, protuberant, standing out. Suspicious: exciting or liable to excite suspicion; questionable / apprehensive, distrustful, doubtful, jealous. Awkward: / annoying, bloody-minded (Brit. informal) difficult, disobliging, exasperating, hard to handle, intractable, irritable, perverse, prickly, stubborn, touchy, troublesome, trying, uncooperative, unhelpful, unpredictable, vexatious, vexing Off-limits: forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons.

To go for (something):

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