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72 Cards in this Set
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Adolescent (adj.) |
Growing from childhood to adulthood; roughly, of the teenage period |
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Adolescent (n.) |
Teenager |
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Antediluvian (adj.) |
Antiquated; belonging to the time before the Biblical Flood (Noah's Ark) |
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Archaic (adj.) |
No longer used, except in special context; old-fashioned |
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Callow (adj.) |
Young and inexperienced; unfledged |
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Contemporary (adj.) |
Of the same period or duration |
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Contemporary (n.) |
Person who lives at the same time as another |
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Crone (n.) |
Withered old woman |
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Decrepit (adj.) |
Weakened by old age |
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Defunct (adj.) |
Dead; deceased; extinct |
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Forebear (n.) |
Forefather, ancestor |
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Hoary (adj.) |
1. White or gray with age 2. Ancient |
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Infantile (adj.) |
Of or like an infant or infancy; childish |
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Inveterate (adj.) |
1. Firmly established by age; deep-rooted 2. Habitual |
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Juvenile (adj.) |
1. Of or for youth; youthful 2. Immature |
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Longevity (n.) |
1. Long life 2. Length of life |
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Matriarch (n.) |
1. Mother and ruler of a family 2. Highly respected elderly lady |
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Mature (adj.) |
1. Full grown; ripe 2. Carefully thought out |
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Nonage (n.) |
Legal minority; period before maturity |
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Nonagenarian (n.) |
Person in his or her 90's |
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Obsolescent (adj.) |
Going out of use; obsolete |
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Obsolete (adj.) |
No longer in use; out-of-date |
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Patriarch (n.) |
1. Venerable old man 2. Father and ruler of a family or tribe ;founder |
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Posthumous (adj.) |
1. Published after the author's death 2. Occurring after deathpatriar |
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Primeval (adj.) |
Pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive |
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Primordial (adj.) |
1. Existing at the very beginning 2. Elementary; primary; first in order |
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Pristine (adj.) |
In original, long-ago state; uncorrupted |
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Puberty (n.) |
Physical beginning of manhood or womanhood (age 14 for men and age 12 for women) |
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Puerile (adj.) |
Foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish |
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Senile (adj.) |
Showing the weakness of age |
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Superannuated (adj.) |
Retired on a pension; extremely old |
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Venerable (adj.) |
Worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance |
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Veteran (n.) |
1. Person experienced in some occupation, art, or profession 2. Ex- member of the armed forces |
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Yore (n.) |
(Always preceded by of) long ago |
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Abstemious (adj.) |
Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent |
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Carousal (n.) |
Jovial feast; drinking party |
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Dipsomania (n.) |
Abnormal, uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism |
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Inebriated (adj.) |
Drunk; intoxicated |
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Sober (adj.) |
1. Not drunk; temperate 2. Serious; free from excitement or exaggeration |
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Sobriety (n.) |
Temperance; abstinence |
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Sot (n.) |
Person made foolish by excessive drinking; drunkard |
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Teetotaler (n.) |
Person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages |
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Bow (n.) |
Forward part of a ship; prow |
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Brine (n.) |
1. Salty water 2. Ocean; sea; the deep |
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Doldrums (n. Pl.) |
1. Calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator 2. Listlessness |
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Flotsam (n.) |
Wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage |
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Jetsam (n.) |
Goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress |
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Jettison (v.) |
Throw (goods) overboard to lighten a ship or plant; discard |
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Leeward (adj.) |
In the direction away from the wind (ant. Windward) |
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Marine (adj.) |
Of the sea of shipping; nautical; maritime |
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Mariner (n.) |
Sailor; seaman |
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Starboard (adj.) |
Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship when you face the bow (forward) |
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Carrion (n.) |
Decaying flesh of a carcass |
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Squalid (adj.) |
Filthy from neglect; dirty; degraded |
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Contaminate (v.) |
Make impure by mixture; pollute (ant. Decontamination) |
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Dross (n.) |
Waste; refuse |
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Expurgate (v.) |
remove objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purify |
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Immaculate (adj.) |
Spotless; absolutely clean; pure; faultless |
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Offal (n.) |
Waste parts of a butchered animal; refuse; garbage |
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Purge (v.) |
Cleanse; purify; rid of undesired element or person |
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Slatternly (adj.) |
Untidy; dirty from habitual neglect; slovenly |
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Sloven (n.) |
Person habitually untidy, dirty, or careless in dress habits, etc. |
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Sordid (adj.) |
Filthy; vile |
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Squalor (n.) |
Filth; deflation; sordidness |
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Sully (v.) |
Tarnish; besmirch; defile |
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Adjacent (adj.) |
Lying near or next to; bordering; adjoining |
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Approximate (adj.) |
Nearly correct |
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Contiguous (adj.) |
Touching; adjoining |
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Environs (n. Pl.) |
Districts surrounding a place; suburbs |
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Juxtapose (v.) |
Put side by side; put close together |
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Juxtaposition (n.) |
Close or side-by-side position |
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Propinquity (n.) |
1. Kinship 2. Nearness of place; proximity |
