Group # 4
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- immaculate
- spotless, absolutely clean
- nonagenarian
- person 90-99 years of age
- primeval
- pertaining to the world's first ages, primitive
- squalor
- filth, degredation, sordidness
- adolescent
- growing from childhood to adulthood, around the teenage age
- sordid
- filthy, vile
- veteran
- person experienced in some occupation, art, or profession
- squalid
- filthy from neglect, dirty, degraded
- contaminate
- make impure by mixture, pollute, defile
- puerile
- foolish for a grown person to say or do, childish
- archaic
- no longer used, except in a special context, old-fashioned
- abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking, temperate, abstinent
- superannuated
- retired on a pension, advanced in years, very old
- brine
- salty water, ocean, sea, the deep
- flotsam
- wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea, driftage
- puberty
- physical beginning of manhood
- pristine
- in original, long ago state, uncorrupted
- starboard
- pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship
- carrion
- decaying flesh of a carcass
- mature
- full-grown, ripe, carefully though out
- callow
- young and inexperienced, unfledged
- contiguous
- touching, adjoining
- juxtaposition
- close or side-by-side position
- sober
- not drunk, temperate
- contemporary
- person who lives at the same time as another
- sloven
- person habitually untidy, dirty, or careless in dress, habits
- sobriety
- temperance, abstinence
- teetotaler
- person who totally abstains from intoxication
- leeward
- in the direction away from the wind
- decrepit
- weakened by old age
- prelapsarian
- of the time or state before the fall of mankind
- contemporary
- of the same period or duration
- juxtapose
- put side by side, put close together
- jetsam
- goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress
- forebear
- forefather, ancestor, progenitor
- mariner
- sailor, seaman
- inveterate
- firmly established by age, deep-rooted
- posthumous
- published after the authors's death
- adjacent
- lying near of next to, bordering, adjoining
- doldrums
- calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator
- carousal
- drinking party, drunken revelry
- venerable
- worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance
- nonage
- legal minority, period before maturity
- jettison
- throw overboard, discard
- hoary
- white or gray with age, ancient
- purge
- cleanse, purify, rid of undesired element or person
- obsolescent
- going out of use, becoming obsolete
- propinquity
- kinship, nearness of place, proximity
- juvenile
- of or for youth, youthful, immature
- obsolete
- no longer in use, out-of-date
- crone
- withered old woman
- approximate
- nearly correct
- bow
- forward part of a ship, prow
- patriarch
- father and ruler of a family or tribe, founder, highly respected old man
- senile
- showing the weekness of age
- offal
- waste parts of a butchered animal, refuse, garbage
- sot
- person made foolish by excessive drinking, drunkard
- environs
- districts surrounding a place, suburbs
- dipsomania
- abnormal, uncontrollable craving for alcohol, alcoholism
- defunct
- dead, deceased, extinct
- dross
- waste, refuse
- sully
- tarnish, defile
- slatternly
- untidy, dirty from habitual neglect, slovenly
- marine
- of the sea or shippin, nautical, maritime
- longevity
- long life, lenth of life
- antediluvian
- antiquated, belonging to the time before the biblical flood
- adolescent
- teenager
- matriarch
- mother and ruler of a family or tribe, founder
- inebriated
- drunk, intoxicated
- expurgate
- remove objectionable material from a book, bowdlerize, purify
- yore
- long ago
- primordial
- existing at the very beginning, elementary, primary, first in order
- infintile
- of or like an infant of infancy, childish