vocabulary for the college bound student 16-20

adolescent

growing from childhood to adulthood

adolescent (part two)

teenager

Antediluvian

antiquated; belonging to the time before the Biblical Flood

Archaic

no longer used, except in a special context

Callow

Young and inexperienced

Contemporary

of the same period or duration

Contemporary

Person who lives at the same time as another

Crone

Withered old woman

decrepit

Weekend by old age

defunct

dead: decreased

Forbear

Forefather; ancestor

hoary

White or gray with age

Infantile

of or like an infant or infancy

inveterate

Firmly established by age

juvenile

of or for youth: youthful

Longevity

Long like

Matriarch

Mother and ruler of a family or tribe: founder

Mature

Full grown; ripe

Nonage

legal minority

nonagenarian

person 90-99 years old

obsolescent

going out of use

obsolete

no longer in use

Patriarch

father and ruler of a family or tribe

posthumous

Published after the author death

primeval

Pertaining to the worlds first age

Primordial

Existing at the world first ages

primordial

Existing at the very beginning

Pristine

In original, long ago state

Puberty

Physical beginning of manhood or womanhood

Puerile

Foolish for a grown person to say or do

Senile

showing the weakness of age

Superannuated

Retired on a pension

Venerable

Worthy of respect because of advanced age

veteran

person experienced in some occupation

yore

long ago

abstemious

sparing in eating and drinking temperate

carousal

drinking party

dipsomania

abnormal, uncontrollable carving for alcoholism

inebriated

drunk

sober

not drunk; temperature

sobriety

temperance

sot

person made foolish by excessive drinking

teetotaler

person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages

bow

forward part of a ship

brine

salty water

doldrums

calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator

flotsam

wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea

jetsam

good cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress

jettison

throw overboard to lighten a ship or plane

leeward

in the direction away from the wind

marine

of the sea or shipping

mariner

sailor

starboard

pertaining to the right hand side of a ship when you are on deck and facing the bow

carrion

decaying flesh of a carcass

contaminate

make impure by mixture

dross

waste

expurgate

remove objectionable material from a book

immaculate

spotless; absolutely clean

offal

waste parts of a butchered animal

purge

cleanse

slatternly

untidy; dirty from habitual

sloven

person habitually untidy, dirty, or careless

sordid

filthy; vile

squalid

filthy from neglect; dirty

squalor

filth; degradation

sully

tarnish

adjacent

lying near or next to

approximate

nearly correct

contiguous

touching; adjoining

environs

district surrounding a place

juxtapose

put side by side; put close together

juxtaposition

close or side by side position

propinquity

kinship