3.22-3.28 Flashcards by Ethan DeSilva

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Adolescent

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Growing from childhood to adulthood

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Antediluvian

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Before biblical flood

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Archaic

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No longer used

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Callow

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Young and inexperienced

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Contemporary

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Living in the same time as another

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Crone

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Withered old women

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Decrepit

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Weakened by age

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Defunct

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Dead

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Forebear

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Ancestor

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Hoary

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Ancient/ old and white

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Infantile

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Of or like an infant

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Inveterate

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Firmly established by age

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Juvenile

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Youth

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Longevity

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Long life

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Matriarch

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Mother

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Mature

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Full grown

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Nonage

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Legal minority

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Obsolete

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No longer in use

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Patriarch

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Venerable old man

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Posthumous

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Published after authors death

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Primeval

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Pertaining to worlds first age

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Primordial

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Existing at the very beginning

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Pristine

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In original

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Puberty

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Physical beginning of man hood

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Puerile

Foolish act for grown ups

Senile

Showing the weakness of age

Superannuated

Retired

Venerable

Worthy of respect

Veteran

Person experienced in occupation

Yore

Long ago

Abstemious

Sparing in eating and drinking

Carousal

Drinking party

Dipsomania

Abnormal craving of alcohol

Inebriated

Drunk

Sober

Not drunk

Sobriety

Temperance

Sot

Person made foolish for drinking

Teetotaler

Person who totally abstains from drinking

Bow

Forward part of ship

Brine

Salty water

Doldrums

Windless part of oceane

Flotsam

Wreckage of ship

Jetsam

Goods cast overboard to lighten a ship or place

Jettison

Throw goods overboard

Leeward

In the direction away from the wind.

Marine

Of the sea or shipping

Mariner

Sailor

Starboard

Pertaining to the right hand side of ship when facing front

Carrion

Decaying flesh

Contaminate

Make impure by mixture

Dross

Waste

Expurgate

Remove objectionable-material from book

Immaculate

Spotless

Offal

Waste parts of dead animal

Purge

Cleanse

Slatternly

Untidy

Sloven

Untidy person

Sordid

Filthy

Squalid

Filthy from neglect

Squalor

Filth

Sully

Tarnish

Adjacent

Lying near or next to

Appropriate

Nearly correct

Contiguous

Touching

Environs

Districts surrounding a place

Juxtapose

Put side by side

Juxtaposition

Close side by side

Propinquity

Kinship