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Adolescent

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Teenager

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Adolescent

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Teenage period

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Antediluvian

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Belonging to time period of the biblical flood

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Archaic

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Old fashioned, no longer used

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Callow

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Young and inexperienced

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Contemporary

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Of the same period or duration

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Contemporary

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Person who lives at the same time as another

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Crone

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Withered old woman

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Decrepit

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Weakened by old age

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Defunct

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Dead; deceased

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Forebear

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Progenitor; ancestor

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Hoary

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White or gray with age

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Infantile

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Of or like an infant

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Juvenile

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Of or for yourh

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Longevity

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Long life

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Matriach

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Mother and ruler of a family or tribe

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Mature

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Full grown; ripe

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Nonage

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Legal minority

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Nonagenarian

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Person 90-99 years old

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Obsolescent

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Going out of use, becoming obsolete

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Obsolete

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No longer in use

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Patriarch

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Father and ruler of a family or tribe

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Posthumous

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Published after an authors death

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Prelapsarian

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Of the time or state before the fall of mankind

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Primeval

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Pertaining to the worlds first ages; primitive

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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 long ago state

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Puberty

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Physical beginning of manhood

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Puerile

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Foolish for a grown person to do

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Senile

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Showing weakness of age

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Superannuated

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retired on a pension

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Venerable

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Worthy of respect because of advanced age

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Veteran

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Person experienced

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Yore

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Long ago