ONE AND DONE

Vocabulary List

Sluggish (e.g., economy)

To bear and raise kids

To cost a bundle

To abandon

To embrace (an idea, ideology, cause etc.)

To fawn on/over sb

To applaud

To twirl

To endure

Retort / to retort

To toilet-train a child

Diaper / nappy

Marvel

Parenting

Urbane

Rare

Childbearing (e.g., to delay/postpone ~)

To poll (people, a group)

To afford to do sth

(financial) meltdown

onlies = only children

growth industry

stranger

to urge sb to do sth

time-honoured

fruitful

to multiply / multiple

directive

entrenched (e.g., aversion)

to be perceived as

spoiled

solitary

misfit

to debunk / to disprove an idea

sibling

to support a family

to scale back/down on (expenses)

to attend / attendance

nonnegotiable

to legitimize (an idea)

oddball

fledgling (e.g., psychologist)

credible (research practices)

to disseminate (information, beliefs, etc.)

capacity

adjustment / maladjusted

aloof

overly (intellectual)

to permeate

sidekick

singleton

precocious

loner

to coddle sb

firstborn

to score (e.g., high/low in tests)

by and large

to distinguish / indistinguishable from

peer

to sink in

to pace (the floor)

platform heels

astute

retarded

prejudice

deficient in

to pet sb

to indulge sb / to overindulge sb

to dilute / dilution / undiluted

triplet

prevalence / prevalent

to contradict

income

self-esteem

aptitude

confidence

to yield results

to thwart

luminary

hectoring

to unburden oneself

to nurture

on balance

double-edged

formative

tailgate

sticker

civil engineer

achievement = attainment

parental (e.g., expectations)

to impose sth on sb / self-imposed

to belt sth out

impersonator

dismay

to dote on sb

debonair

accomplished (e.g., pianist)

fertility / fertile

maternal bliss

unbridled (e.g., wonder)

to gush over sb

to do sb harm

drudgery

reassurance

to teethe / teething

nanny

mutual (e.g., happiness)

fulfilment

to make sacrifices

to surmise

consuming (e.g., effort)

to giggle

leftover

at face value

well-being

household

to conceive (a baby)

hard-won

to get pregnant / pregnancy

devastated

to comb

religiosity

pious / piety

to beget

to inherit

to vie for sth with sb / to vie to do sth

pulpit

brood

to chisel

impetus

to breed

plurality

to contribute to

metamorphosis / plural: metamorphoses

to be afoot

phenomenon / plural: phenomena

ascent

to exacerbate (e.g., angst)

wonk

birthrate

to forecast

disproportionate

elderly citizen

caretaker

sole

aging parents

anxiety / anxious

spouse

to share the burden

emotionally fraught

inevitable / inevitability

to impel sb to do sth

obstetrician

tough

to trace

ilk

breeder

to offset sth

uptick

to shrink / shrank / shrunk

to love sb to bits

postponement of parenthood

mate

flexible and pleasure-seeking life

declining population

to furrow one's brow

to take sth for granted

pension system

to rely on sb

economic backup

from time immemorial

dire (e.g., situation)

trying

to screw up

mindful

stepparents / stepsiblings

to cast sb as

ersatz

aisle

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