Vocabulary
Across
- 2. person who totally abstains from intoxicating beverages
- 3. 1.) not drunk; temperate 2.) serious; free from excitement or exaggeration
- 5. person made foolish by excessive drinking; drunkard
- 6. remove objectionable material from a book; bowdlerize; purify
- 8. forefather; ancestor; progenitor
- 9. 1.) kinship 2.) nearness of place; proximity
- 11. 1.) mother and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2.) highly respected old woman
- 14. going out of use; becoming out-of-date
- 15. waste; refuse
- 18. 1.) of or for youth; youthful 2.) immature
- 19. no longer used, except in special context; old-fashioned
- 25. showing the weakness of age
- 26. put side by side; put close together
- 27. person 90-99 years old
- 28. 1.) father and ruler of a family or tribe; founder 2.) highly respected old man
- 29. spotless; absolutely clean; pure; faultless
- 33. abnormal, uncontrollable craving for alcohol; alcoholism
- 37. 1.) published after the author's death 2.) occurring after death
- 38. filth; degradation; sordidness
- 41. nearly correct
- 44. person 70-79 years old
- 45. decaying flesh of a carcass
- 46. 1.) existing at the very beginning 2.) elementary; primary; first in order
- 53. teenager
- 54. pertaining to the world's first ages; primitive
- 56. in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted
- 57. legally minority; period before maturity
- 59. drunk; intoxicated
- 60. throw (goods) overboard to lighten a ship or plane; discard
- 62. 1.) long life 2.) length of life
- 65. of the sea or shipping; nautical; maritime
- 68. in the direction away from the wind
- 69. 1.) full-grown; ripe 2.) carefully thought out
Down
- 1. make impure by mixture; pollute; defile
- 3. person habitually untidy; dirty; or careless in dress; habits, etc.
- 4. wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea; driftage
- 7. worthy of respect because of advanced age, achievement, virtue, or historical importance
- 10. of the time or state before the fall of mankind
- 12. temperance; abstinence
- 13. no longer in use; out-of-date
- 14. person 80-89 years old
- 16. close or side-by-side position
- 17. weakened by old age
- 20. sparing in eating and drinking; temperate; abstinent
- 21. 1.) of the same period or duration 2.) modern; up-to-date 3.) person who lives at the same time as another
- 22. cleanse; purify; rid of undesired element or person
- 23. of or like an infant or infancy; childish
- 24. pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship when you are on deck and facing the bow (forward)
- 30. 1.) retired on a pension; advanced in ears; very old 2.) incapacitated by age
- 31. forward part of a ship; prow
- 32. 1.) white or gray with age 2.) ancient
- 33. dead; deceased; extinct
- 34. physical beginning of manhood (at about age 14) or womanhood (at about age 12)
- 35. lying near or next to; bordering; adjoining
- 36. touching; adjoining
- 39. drinking party; drunken revelry
- 40. filthy; vile
- 41. antiquated; belonging to the time before the biblical Flood (when all except Noah and his family perished)
- 42. untidy; dirty from habitual neglect; slovenly
- 43. young and inexperienced; unfledged
- 47. 1.) firmly established by age; deep-rooted 2.) habitual
- 48. withered old woman
- 49. districts surrounding a place; suburbs
- 50. 1.) salty water 2.) ocean; sea; the deep
- 51. 1.) calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator 2.) listlessness
- 52. 1.) person experienced in some occupation, art, or profession 2.) ex-member of the armed forces
- 55. sailor; seaman
- 58. foolish for a grown person to say or do; childish
- 61. filthy from neglect; dirty; degraded
- 63. (always preceded by of) long ago
- 64. waste parts of a butchered animal; refuse; garbage
- 66. goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress
- 67. tarnish; besmirch; defile