College Bound Vocab 5
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| 100363636 | adolescent | growing from childhood to adulthood | |
| 100363637 | adolescent | teenager | |
| 100363638 | antediluvian | antiquated; belonging to the time before the Biblical Flood (when all except Noah and his family perished) | |
| 100363639 | archaic | no longer used, except in a special context; old-fashioned | |
| 100363640 | callow | young and inexperienced | |
| 100363641 | contemporary | 1. of the same period or duration 2. modern; up to date | |
| 100363642 | contemporary | person who lives at the same time as another | |
| 100363643 | crone | withered old woman | |
| 100363644 | decrepit | weakened by old age | |
| 100363645 | defunct | dead; deceased; extinct | |
| 100363646 | forebear | forefather; ancestor; progenitor | |
| 100363647 | hoary | 1.white or gray with age 2.ancient | |
| 100363648 | infantile | of or like an infant or infancy; childish | |
| 100363649 | inveterate | 1.firmly established by age; deep-rooted 2.habitual | |
| 100363650 | juvenile | 1.of or for youth; youthful 2.immature | |
| 100363651 | longevity | 1.long life 2.length of life | |
| 100363652 | matriarch | 1. mother and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2.highly respected old woman | |
| 100363653 | mature | 1. full-grown; ripe 2.carefully thought out | |
| 100363654 | nonage | legal minority; period before maturity | |
| 100363655 | nonagenarian | person 90-99 years old | |
| 100363656 | obsolescent | going out of use; becoming obsolete | |
| 100363657 | obsolete | no longer in use; out of date | |
| 100363658 | patriarch | 1.father and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2.highly respected old man | |
| 100363659 | posthumous | 1.published after the author's death 2. occurring after death | |
| 100363660 | prelapsarian | of the time or state before the fall of mankind | |
| 100363661 | primeval | pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive | |
| 100363662 | primordial | 1.existing at the very beginning 2. elementary; primary; first in order | |
| 100363663 | pristine | in original, long-ago state, uncorrupted | |
| 100363664 | puberty | physical beginning of manhood(at about the age of 14 for men and 12 for women) | |
| 100363665 | puerile | foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish | |
| 100363666 | senile | showing the weakness of age | |
| 100363667 | superannuated | 1.retired on a pension; advanced in years; very old 2incapacitated by age | |
| 100363668 | venerable | worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance | |
| 100363669 | veteran | 1.person experienced in some occupation, art, or profession 2.ex-member of the armed forces | |
| 100363670 | yore | long age | |
| 100363671 | abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate | |
| 100363672 | carousal | drinking party; drunken revelry | |
| 100363673 | dipsomania | abnormal, uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism | |
| 100363674 | inebriated | drunk; intoxicated | |
| 100363675 | sober | 1.not drunk; temperate 2.serious; free from excitement or exaggeration | |
| 100363676 | sobriety | temperance; abstinence | |
| 100363677 | sot | person made foolish by excessive drinking; drunkard | |
| 100363678 | teetotaler | person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages | |
| 100363679 | bow | forward part of a ship; prow | |
| 100363680 | brine | 1. salty water 2.ocean; sea; the deep | |
| 100363681 | doldrums | 1. calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator 2. listlessness | |
| 100363682 | flotsam | wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage | |
| 100363683 | jetsam | goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress | |
| 100363684 | jettison | throw (goods)overboard to lighten a ship or plane; discard | |
| 100363685 | leeward | in the direction away from the wind | |
| 100363686 | marine | of the sea or shipping; nautical; maritime | |
| 100363687 | mariner | sailor; seaman | |
| 100363688 | starboard | pertaining to the right-hand side of ship when you are on deck and facing the bow(forward) | |
| 100363689 | carrion | decaying flesh of a carcass | |
| 100363690 | contaminate | making impure by mixture; pollute defile | |
| 100375634 | dross | waste; refuse | |
| 100375635 | expurgate | remove objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purify | |
| 100375636 | immaculate | spotless; absolutely clean; pure; faultless | |
| 100375637 | offal | waste parts of a butchered animal; refuse; garbage | |
| 100375638 | purge | cleanse; purify; rid of undesired element or person | |
| 100375639 | slatternly | untidy; dirty from habitual neglect; slovenly | |
| 100375640 | sloven | person habitually untidy, dirty,or careless in dress, habits etc. | |
| 100375641 | sordid | filthy; vile | |
| 100375642 | squalid | filthy from neglect; dirty; degraded | |
| 100375643 | squalor | filth; degradation; sordidness | |
| 100375644 | sully | tarnish; besmirch;defile | |
| 100375645 | adjacent | lying near or next to; bordering; adjoining | |
| 100375646 | approximate | nearly close | |
| 100375647 | contiguous | touching; adjoining | |
| 100375648 | environs | districts surrounding a place; suburbs | |
| 100375649 | juxtapose | put side by side; put close together | |
| 100375650 | juxtaposition | close or side-by-side position | |
| 100375651 | propinquity | 1.kinship 2.nearness of place; proximity |