vocab 80-83
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- matriarch
- n. highly respected old woman
- crone
- n. withered old woman
- posthumous
- adj. occuring after death
- puerile
- adj. childish
- decrepit
- adj. weakened by old age
- forebear
- n. ancestor
- senile
- adj. showing the weakness of age
- contemporary adj.
- modern
- hoary
- adj. white or gray with age
- inveterate
- adj. habitual (customary)
- patriarch
- n. highly respected old man
- archaic
- adj. old-fashioned (no longer used)
- venerable
- adj. worthy of respect b/c of achievement, old age etc.
- pristine
- adj. in original, long-ago state
- primordial
- adj. at the very beginning
- contemporary n.
- person who lives at the same time as another
- nonage
- n. period before maturity
- callow
- adj. young and unexperienced
- juvenile
- adj. youthful
- puberty
- n. physical beginning of manhood or womanhood
- yore
- n. (preceded by of) long ago
- antediluvian
- adj. antiquated (old-fashioned, out-of-date)
- primeval
- adj. pertaining to the world's first ages
- longevity
- n. long life