English Vocabulary "age" List

Front 1

adolescent

Back 1

teenager

Hint 1

As adolescents develop into adults, they tend to become more self-confident.

Front 2

antediluvian

Back 2

antiquated

Hint 2

Compared with today's supersonic jets, the plane the Wright brothers flew in 1903 seems antediluvian.

Front 3

archaic

Back 3

old-fashioned

Hint 3

An archaic meaning of the word "quick" is "living" as in the Biblical phrase "the quick and the dead."

Front 4

callow

Back 4

young and inexperienced

Hint 4

A prudent executive can't be expected to entrust the management of a company to a callow youth just out of college.

Front 5

contemporary

Back 5

of the same period or duration

Hint 5

The English Renaissance was not contemporary with the Italian Renaissance; it came two centuries later.

Front 6

crone

Back 6

withered old woman

Hint 6

The use of the word crone is unfair to women because there is no corresponding word for a "withered old man."

Front 7

decrepit

Back 7

weakened by old age

Hint 7

Several decrepit inmates had to be carried to safety when the home for the aged was evacuated during the fire.

Front 8

defunct

Back 8

dead

Hint 8

The Acme Lumber Company is still in business, but the Equity Appliance Corporation had long been defunct.

Front 9

forebear

Back 9

forefather,ancestor

Hint 9

Her forebears on her father's side had settled in New Jersey before the Civil War.