IELTS vocabulary

colleague
-definition: 
Your colleagues are the people you work with, especially in a professional job.
-example: Female academics are still paid less than their male colleagues.

client 
-definition: 
A client of a professional person or organization is a person that receives a service from them in return for payment.
-example: a solicitor and his client

sibling
-definition:  [FORMAL] Your siblings are your brothers and sisters.
-example: Some studies have found that children are more friendly to younger siblings of the same sex.

employer
-definition: 
Your employer is the person or organization that you work for.
-example: employers who hire illegal workers

autonomous
-definition: 
An autonomous person makes their own decisions rather than being influenced by someone else.
-example: They proudly declared themselves part
of a new autonomous province.

spouse
-definition: 
Someone’s spouse is the person they are married to.
-example: Husbands and wives do not
have to pay any inheritance tax
when their spouse dies.