3.22-3.28 Flashcards by Ethan DeSilva | Brainscape

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Adolescent

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Growing from childhood to adulthood

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Antediluvian

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Before biblical flood

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Archaic

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No longer used

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Callow

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Young and inexperienced

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Contemporary

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Living in the same time as another

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Crone

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Withered old women

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Decrepit

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Weakened by age

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Defunct

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Dead

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Forebear

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Ancestor

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Hoary

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Ancient/ old and white

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Infantile

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Of or like an infant

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Inveterate

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Firmly established by age

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Juvenile

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Youth

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Longevity

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Long life

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Matriarch

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Mother

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Mature

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Full grown

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Nonage

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Legal minority

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Obsolete

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No longer in use

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Patriarch

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Venerable old man

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Posthumous

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Published after authors death

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Primeval

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Pertaining to worlds first age

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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

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Puberty

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Physical beginning of man hood

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Puerile

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Foolish act for grown ups

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Senile

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Showing the weakness of age

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Superannuated

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Retired

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Venerable

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Worthy of respect

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Veteran

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Person experienced in occupation

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Yore

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Long ago

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Abstemious

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Sparing in eating and drinking

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Carousal

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Drinking party

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Dipsomania

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Abnormal craving of alcohol

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Inebriated

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Drunk

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Sober

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Not drunk

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Sobriety

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Temperance

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Sot

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Person made foolish for drinking

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Teetotaler

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Person who totally abstains from drinking

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Bow

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Forward part of ship

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Brine

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Salty water

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Doldrums

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Windless part of oceane

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Flotsam

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Wreckage of ship

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Jetsam

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Goods cast overboard to lighten a ship or place

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Jettison

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Throw goods overboard

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Leeward

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In the direction away from the wind.

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Marine

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Of the sea or shipping

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Mariner

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Sailor

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Starboard

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Pertaining to the right hand side of ship when facing front

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Carrion

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Decaying flesh

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Contaminate

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Make impure by mixture

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Dross

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Waste

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Expurgate

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Remove objectionable-material from book

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Immaculate

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Spotless

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Offal

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Waste parts of dead animal

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Purge

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Cleanse

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Slatternly

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Untidy

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Sloven

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Untidy person

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Sordid

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Filthy

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Squalid

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Filthy from neglect

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Squalor

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Filth

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Sully

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Tarnish

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Adjacent

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Lying near or next to

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Appropriate

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Nearly correct

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Contiguous

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Touching

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Environs

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Districts surrounding a place

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Juxtapose

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Put side by side

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Juxtaposition

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Close side by side

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Propinquity

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Kinship