| Term | Definition |
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| adolescent | growing from childhood to adulthood; roughly, of the ttenage period |
| adolescent | teenage |
| antediluvian | antiquated; belonging to the time before the Bibliccal Flood( when all except Noah and his family perished) |
| archaic | no longer used, except in a special context; old-fashioned |
| callow | young and inexperienced; unfledged |
| contemporary (adj.) | 1. of the same period or duration 2. modern; up-to-date |
| contemporary (n.) | person who lives at the same time as another |
| crone | withered old woman |
| decrepit | weakened by old age |
| defunct | dead;deceased;extinct |
| forebear | forefather;ancestor;pregenitor |
| hoary | 1. white or gray with age 2. ancient |
| infantile | of or like an infant or infancy; childish |
| inveterate | 1. firmly established by age; deep-rooted 2. habitual |
| juvenile | 1.of or for youth; youthful 2. immature |
| longevity | 1. long life 2. length of life |
| matriarch | 1. moter and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2. highly respected old woman |
| mature | 1 full-grown; ripe 2. carefully thought out |
| nonage | legal minority; period before maturity |
| nonagenarian | person 90-99 years old |
| prepinquity | 1. kinship 2. nearness of place; proximity |
| adjacent | lying near or next to; bordering adjoining |
| approximate | nearly correct |
| contiguous | touching; adjoining |
| environs | districts surrounding a place; suburbs |
| juxtapose | put side by side; put close together |
| juxtaposition | closer or side-by-side |
| sully | tarnish;besmirch;defile |
| squalor | filth;degradation;sordidness |
| squalid | filthy from neglect; dirty; degraded |
| sordid | filthy;vile |
| sloven | person habitually untiy, dirty, or careless in dress, habits, etc. |
| slatternly | untidy;dirty from habitual neglect |
| purge | cleanse; purify;rid of undesired element or person |
| offal | waste parts of a butchered animal refuse;garbage |
| immaculate | spotless;absoulutely cleam; pure;faultless |
| expurgate | remove objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purify |
| dross | waste;refuse |
| contaminate | make inpure by mixture;pollute;defule |
| carrion | decaying flesh of a carcass |
| starboard | pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship when you are on deck and facing the bow |
| mariner | sailor; seaman |
| marine | of the sea or shipping; nautical;maritime |
| leeward | in the direction away from the wind |
| jettison | throw (goods) overboard to lighten a ship or plane; discard |
| jetsam | goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress |
| flotsam | wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage |
| doldrums | 1. calm,windless part of the ocean near the equator 2. listlessness |
| brine | 1. salty water 2. ocean; sea; the deep |
| bow | forward part of a ship; prow |
| teetotaler | person who totally abstains from intoxication beverages |
| sot | person made foolish by excessive drinking; drunkard |
| sobriety | temperance; abstinence |
| sober | 1. not drunk;temperate 2. serious free from excitement or exaggeration |
| inebraiated | drunk; intoxicated |
| dipsomania | abnormal, uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism |
| carousla | drinking party; drunken revelry |
| abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate;abstinent |
| yore | (always preceded by of) long ago |
| veteran | 1. person experience in some occupation,art, or profession 2. ex-memeber of the armed forces |
| venerable | worthy or respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance |
| suppernnuated | 1. retired on a person;advance in years;very old 2. incapacitated by age |
| senile | showing the weakness of age |
| obsolescent | going out of use; becoming obsolete |
| obsolete | no longer in use; out-of-date |
| patriarch | 1. father and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2. highly respected old man |
| psthumous | 1. published after the author's death 2. occuring after death |
| prelapsarian | of the time or state before the fall of mankind |
| primeval | pertaining to the world's first ages;primitive |
| primordial | 1. existing at the very beginning 2. elementary; primary; first in order |
| pristine | in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted |
| puberty | physical beginning of manhood( at about age 14) or womanhood (at about age 12) |
| puerile | foolish for a grown person to stay or do; childish |
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