Vocabulary - age-time

Question 1

imminent

Answer 1

about to happen

Question 2

hitherto

Answer 2

until now or until the point in time under discussion

Question 3

diachronic

Answer 3

through time

Question 4

diurnal

Answer 4

daily

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transient, transience (n)

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b : a person traveling about usually in search of work. 2 a : a temporary oscillation that occurs in a circuit because of a sudden change of voltage or of load. b : a transient current or voltage.

Question 6

incipient, (adj) - ence

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in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop

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exigency, -nt (n)

Answer 7

an urgent need or demand; a crisis

Question 8

dilatory

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delaying; tending to delay

Question 9

pro tem

Answer 9

temporarily

Question 10

retrospective

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(adj) looking back on or dealing with past events or situations. (n) an exhibition or compilation showing the development of the work of a particular artist over a period of time.

Question 11

sequencing

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the order in which things happen or should happen

Question 12

synchronous

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1. existing or occurring at the same time 2. (of a satellite or its orbit) making or denoting an orbit around the earth or another celestial body in which one revolution is completed in the period taken for the body to rotate about its axis

Question 13

vintage

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The year or place in which wine, esp. wine of high quality, was produced.

Question 14

contemporaneous

Answer 14

existing or occurring in the same period of time

Question 15

courant

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current, prevalent, standard

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forthwith

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immediately

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evanescent, -nce (n)

Answer 17

fleeting; tending to vanish like vapor

Question 18

ex post facto

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after the fact : retroactively; or affecting something that’s already happened.– An ex post facto law is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law. In criminal law, it may criminalize actions that were legal when committed; it may aggravate a crime by bringing it into a more severe category than it was in when it was committed; it may change the punishment prescribed for a crime, as by adding new penalties or extending sentences; or it may alter the rules of evidence in order to make conviction for a crime likelier than it would have been when the deed was committed.

Question 19

quotidian

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of or occurring every day; daily

Question 20

vernal

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of, in or appropriate to spring

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nascent

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beginning to exist, not fully developed; In its initial stage, the nascent film industry faced harsh opposition from moral groups.

Question 22

ephemeral, ephemera (n)

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lasting for a very short time

Question 23

episodic

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happening in parts or segments

Question 24

primordial

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ancient, earliest, first, prehistoric,

Question 25

centenary

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Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years

Question 26

fortnight

Answer 26

Two weeks.

Question 27

perpetuity

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a thing that lasts forever or for an indefinite period, in particular.

Question 28

primeval

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Belonging to the first ages

Question 29

asynchronous

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acting or functioning with no regularity

Question 30

nanosecond

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one billionth of a second; (slang) a very short time

Question 31

expeditious

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done with speed; quick

Question 32

hoary, hoar (n)

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showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

Question 33

inchoate

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just begun and so not fully formed or developed

Question 34

anno Domini

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in the year of the Lord

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fait accompli

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a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept.

Question 36

pubescent

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a : arriving at or having reached puberty. b : of or relating to puberty. 2 : covered with fine soft short hairs — compare villous

Question 37

triennial

Answer 37

Taking place every third year

Question 38

anno

Answer 38

year

Question 39

anachronism

Answer 39

a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists