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adolescent
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growing from childhood, roughly, of teenage period
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adolescent (n.)
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teenager
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antidiluvian
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antiquated, belonging to time before biblical flood
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archaic
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no longer used except in special context, old-fashioned
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callow
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yound and inexperianced
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contemporary (adj.)
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of same period or duration
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comtemproary (n.)
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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, extinct
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forebear
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forefather, ancestr
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hoary
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white or gray w/ age, ancient
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infantile
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of or like an infant or infancy; childish
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inveterate
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firmly established by age, deep-rooted; habitual
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juvenile
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of or for youth, youthful
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longevity
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long life, length of life
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matriarch
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mother and ruler of family
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mature
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full-grown, ripe; carefully thought out
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nonage
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legal minority, period before maturity
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nonagenarian
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person in his/her nineties
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septuagenarian
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person in 70's
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octogenarian
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person in 80's
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obsolescent
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going out of use; becoming obsolute
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obsolete
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no longer in use/ out of date
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patriarch
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venerable old man; father and ruler of family or tribe, founder
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posthumous
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published after author's death; occuring after death
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primeval
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pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive
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primordial
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existing at the very beginning, elementary, primary, first in order
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pristine
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in original, long state ago, uncorrupted
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puberty
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physical beginning of manhood or womanhood
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puerile
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foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish
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senile
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showing the weakness of age
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superannuated
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retired on a pension, extremely old
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venerable
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worthy of respect b/c of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance
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veteran
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perosn experienced in some occupation, art, or profession
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yore
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(always preceded by of) long ago
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abstemious
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sparing in eating or drinking, temperate, abstinent
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carousal
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jovial feast, drinking party
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dipsomania
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abnormal, uncontrollable raving for alcohol
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inebriated
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drunk, intoxicated
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sober
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not drunk, temperate
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sobriety
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temperance, abstinence
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sot
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person made foolish by excessive drinking; drunkard
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teetotaler
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person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages
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bow
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forward part of a ship, prow
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brine
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salty water
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doldrums
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calm, windless part of the ocean near the equater, listlessness
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flotsam
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wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage
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jetsam
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goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress
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jettison
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throw goods overboard to lighten a ship or plane, discard
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leeward
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in direction away from the wind
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marine
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of sea or shipping; nautical; maritime
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mariner
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sailor; seaman
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starboard
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pertaining to the righthand side of the ship when you face the bow
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carrion
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decaying flesh of a carcass
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contaminate
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make impure by mixture;pollute
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dross
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waste; refuse
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expurgate
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remove objectional material from a book; bowdlerize, purify
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immaculate
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spotless, absolutely clean, pure, faultless
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offal
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waste parts of a butchered animal refuse, garbage
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purge
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cleanse; purify, rid of undesired element or person
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slatternly
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untidy; dirty from habitual neglect; slovely
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sloven
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person habitually dirty or untidy or careless in dress, habits
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sordid
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filthy; vile
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squalid
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filthy from neglect, dirty, degraded
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squalor
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filth, degradation, sordidness
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sully
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tarnish, besmirch, defile
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adjacent
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lying near or next to; bordering, adjoining
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approximate
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nearly correct
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contiguous
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touching; adjoining
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environs
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districts surrounding a place; suburbs
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juxtapose
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put sise by side; close together
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juxtaposition
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close or sise by side position
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propinquity
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kinship; nearness of place/proximity
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