Chapter 8 Old School
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267737370 | Archaic | characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned [Ex: "How dost thou?" is an archaic way of saying, "How are you?"] | |
267737371 | Hackneyed | worn out through overuse; trite [Ex: All my mom could offer in the way of advice were these hackneyed old phrases that I'd heard a hundred times before.] | |
267737372 | Medieval | referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned [Ex: His ideas about fashion were positively medieval; the thought that a man should always wear a coat and tie and a woman should always wear a dress.] | |
267737373 | Obsolete | no longer in use; old-fashioned [Ex: Eight-track tape players are obsolete because music isn't recorded in that format anymre.] |