This document defines and provides examples of common relationship terms including divorced, engaged, married, separated, single, widowed, acquaintance, and fiancé. It explains that divorced means to end a marriage legally, engaged means pledged to be married, married means acquired through marriage, separated means kept apart but not divorced, single means unmarried, widowed means a woman who has lost her husband by death but not remarried, acquaintance means a person who is known, and fiancé means a man engaged to be married. Examples are given for how each term would be used in sentences.

1. RELATIONSHIPS
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2. DIVORCED:
TO BREAK THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
BETWEEN ONESELF AND (ONE'S SPOUSE)
Many people get
married and in just a
few months they get
divorced.

3. ENGAGED:
PLEDGED TO BE MARRIED
I am
engaged. I
am going to
get married
in August!

4. MARRIED :
ACQUIRED THROUGH MARRIAGE
What a nice
married couple

5. SEPARATED:
TO KEEP APART OR DIVIDE
My wife and I
are separated.
We are trying
to make things
work out.

6. SINGLE:
SOLITARY OR SOLE; LONE, UNMARRIED
I am still single
and happy. I am
23 years old.

7. WIDOWED:
A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER HUSBAND BY
DEATH AND HAS NOT REMARRIED
My aunt is a widowed.
Her husband died last
month.

8. ACQUAINTANCE:
A PERSON KNOWN TO ONE
He is trying to start
a new relationship.
He already found a
new acquaintance

9. FIANCÉ
:
A MAN ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED.
My fiance is just
20 years old and
very good looking.