english vocab 11-20
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- adolescent
- growing from childhood to adult hood; roughly, of the teenage period
- precipice
-
very steep overhang, cliff
- obsolete
- no longeri n use; out of date
- contemporary
- of the same period or duration
- senile
- showing eakness of age
- apogee
-
1. farthest point from earth in orbit
2. highest point - chasm
- deep breach; wide gap or rift
- dregs
- most worthless part
- kith and kin
- freinds and family
- earthy
- coarse; low
- posthumous
-
1. published after hte author's death
2. occurring after death - filial
- like a son or daughter
- archaic
- no longer used, except in a speical context; old fashioned
- puerile
- foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish
- menial
- low; mean; subservient; servile
- ravine
- deep, narrowe gordge worn by running water
- progenitor
- forefather
- precipitous
-
1. steep as a precipice
2. hasty, rash - puberty
- physical beginning of manhood (at about age 14) or womanhood (at about age 12)
- incense
-
substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned
a - aroma
- pleasant odor, bouquet
- mature
-
1. full grown ripe
2. carefully thought out - malodorous
- ill-smelling; stinking; fetid; unpleasantly odorous
- preeminent
- standing out above others, superior
- rank
-
1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; ofensively gross or coarse
2. extreme - noisome
-
1. offensive smell; disgusting
2. harmful; noxious - putrid
-
1. stinking from decay
2. extremely bad; corrupt - consummate
- perfect, superb, carried to the highes degree
- reek
- emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be permeated with
- olfactory
- pertaining to the sense of smell
- pungent
- sharp in smell or taste; acrid; biting; stimulating
- scent
- get a suspicion of
- infantile
- of or like an infant or infancy; childish
- nonage
- lefal minority; period before maturity
- unsavory
-
1. unpleasant to taste or smell
2. morally offensive - rancid
- unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
- forebear
- forefather, ancesotr
- primeval
- 1pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive
- inveterate
- 1. firmly established by age; deep-rooted
- matriarch
-
1. mother and ruler of a faimly
2. highly respected elderly lady - patriarch
-
1. venerable old man
2. frther and ruler of a family or tribe; founder - subliminate
-
1. redirect the energy of a persons bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels
2 purify, refine - nonagenarian
- perosn in his or her 90s
- primordial
-
1. existing at the very beginning
2. elementary; primary; first in order - sublime
- elevated, noble, exalted, uplifting
- defunct
- dead; deceased; extinct
- acme
- highest point, pinnacle
- ethereal
- of the heavens, celestial, airy, delicate, intangible
- juvenile
-
1. of or for youth; youthful
2. immature - zenith
-
1. highest point (career)
2. point in the heavens directly overhead - pristine
- in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted
- vertex
- farthest point oppostie the base, as in a triangle or pyramid, apex
- antediluvian
- antiquated; belonging to the time before Biblical Flood
- abject
- deserving contempt, wretched
- declivity
- downward slope
- volition
- will
- exalt
-
1. lift up w/ joy, pride etc.
2. raise in rank, dignity, etc. - Alacrity
- cheerful willingness
- eminent
- standing out, noticible, famous
- abysmal
- deep, profound, immesurably great
- obsolescent
- going out of use; becoming obsolete
- involuntary
- not on one's own free will, spontaneous
- decrepit
- weakened by old age
- loath
- unwilling
- abyss
- bottomless, immesurably deep space
- anticlimax
- abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous, comedown, bathos
- climactic
- arranged in order of increasing force and interest
- aversion
- strong dislike
- loathe
- hate
- acclivity
- upward slope
- eminance
-
highrank
- humble
-
1. low condition
2. not proud, modest - humiliate
- lower the pride, position
- humility
- freedom from pride
- nadir
- lowest point
- plumb
- go to the bottom of
- profound
- very deep; deeply felt
- fraternal
- like a brother
- genealogy
- a person descendants, lineage
- gentility
-
1. good manners
2. gentry; upper class - maternal
- like a mother
- nepotism
- favoritism by those in power
- paternal
- like a father
- progeny
- ofspring, children, descnedants
- sibling
- brother or sis
- aromatic
- sweet-scented, fragrant
- fragrant
- having a pleasant odor
- fusty
-
1 stale smelling; musty; moldy
2. old fashioned - callow
- young and inexperienced; unfledged
- crone
- withered old woman
- hoary
-
1. white or gray with age
2. ancient - longevity
-
1. long life
2. length of life