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72 Cards in this Set
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adolescent
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adj
growing from childhood to adulthood; roughly of the age of the teenage period |
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adolescent
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noun
teenager |
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antediluvian
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adj
antiquated; belonging to the time before the biblical flood |
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archaic
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adj
no longer used, except in a special context; old-fashioned |
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callow
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adj
young and inexperienced |
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contemporary
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adj
1. of the same period or duration 2. modern up-to-date |
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crone
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noun
withered old woman |
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decrepit
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adj
weakened by old age |
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defunct
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adj
dead; deceased; extinct |
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forebear
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noun
forefather; ancestor; progenitor |
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hoary
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adj
1. white or gray with age 2. ancient |
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infantile
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adj
of or like an infant or infancy; childish |
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inveterate
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adj
1. firmmly established by age; deep-rooted 2. habitual |
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juvenile
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adj
1. of or for youth; youth ful 2. immmature |
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longevity
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noun
1. long life 2. length of life |
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matriarch
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noun
1. mother and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2. highly respected old woman |
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mature
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adj
1. full-grown; ripe 2. carefully thought out |
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nonage
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noun
legal minority; period before maturity |
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nonagenarioan
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noun
person between 90-99 years old |
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obsolescent
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adj
going out of use; becoming obsolete |
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obsolete
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adj
no longer in use; out of date |
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patriarch
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noun
1. father and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2. highly respected old man |
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posthumous
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adj
1. publishing after the aurthor's dead 2. occuring after death |
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prelapsarian
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adj
of the time or state before the fall of mankind |
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primeval
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adj
pertaining to the owrld's first ages; primitive |
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primordial
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adj
1. existing at the very beginning 2. elementary; primary; first in order |
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pristine
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adj
in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted |
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puberty
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noun
physical beginning of manhood |
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puerile
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adj
foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish |
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senile
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adj
showing the weakness of age |
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superannuated
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adj
1.retired at a pension; advanced in years; very old 2. incapacitated by age |
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venerable
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adj
worthy of respect because of advanced age; achievement, virtue or historical importance |
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veteran
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noun
1. a person who experienced in some occupation, art, or profession 2. ex-member of the armed forces |
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yore
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noun
long ago |
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abstemious
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adj
sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent |
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carousal
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noun
drinking party; drunken revelry |
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dipsomania
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noun
abnormal, uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism |
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inebriated
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adj
drunk; intoxicated |
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sober
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adj
1. not drunk; temperate 2. serious; free from excitement or exaggeration |
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sobriety
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noun
temperance; abstinence |
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sot
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noun
person made foolish by excessive drinking; drunkard |
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teetotaler
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noun
person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages |
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bow
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noun
forward part of a ship |
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brine
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noun
1.salty water 2.ocean; sea; the deep |
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doldrums
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noun
1. calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator 2. listlessness |
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flotsam
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noun
wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; dirftage |
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jetsam
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noun
goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress |
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jettison
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verb
throw overboard to lighten a ship or plane |
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leeward q
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adj
in the direction away from the wind |
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marine
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adj
of the sea or shiping; nautical, maritime |
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mariner
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noun
sailor; seaman |
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starboard
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adj
pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship when you are on the deck and facing the bow |
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carrion
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noun
decaying flesh of a carcass |
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contaminate
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verb
to make impure by mixture; pollute; defile |
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dross
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noun
waste; refuse |
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expurgate
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verb
remove objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purify |
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immaculate
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adj
spotless; absolutely clean; pure; faultless |
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offal
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noun
waste parts of a butchered animal; refuse; garbage |
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purge
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verb
cleanse; purify; rid of undesired element or person |
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slatternly
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adj
untidy; dirty from hibitual neglect; solovenly |
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sloven
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noun
person habitually untidy, dirty, or in careless in dress, habits, etc. |
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sordid
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adj
filthy; vile |
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squalid
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adj
filthy from neglect; dirty; degraded |
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squalor
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noun
fjilth; degradation; soridness |
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sully
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verb
tarnish; besmirch; defile |
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adjacent
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adj
lying near or next to; bordering |
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approximate
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adj
nearly correct |
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contiguous
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adj
touching; adjoinign |
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environs
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noun
districts surrounding a place |
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juxtapose
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verb
put side by side; put close together |
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juxtaposition
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noun
close or side by side position |
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propinquity
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noun
1. kinship 2. nearness of a place; proximity |
