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vanessa anne x3 asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 1 decade ago

Words associated with old age?

There's this grammar exercise in my summer reading packet with a chart. I need 5 nouns, 5 verbs, 5 adjectives, and 5 adverbs that have to do with old age or old people. x_x weird, I know. The examples they gave were experience, contented, volunteer (? I guess they mean at a nursing home), and slowly. I already have memories, stories, wrinkle, forgetful, white, and care.

Feel free to just write any words that come to mind. :P

Update:

I don't really think it's age-ism. They're asking us to do it because of a poem called The Minuet , where the speaker talks about his grandma. And the section's about parts of speech, so...

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  • Dear Carlos
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    nouns: hag, codger, dotard, wheelchair, diabetes

    verbs: cough, hobble, depend, sleep, forget

    adjectives: debilitated, anile, senile, senescent, infirm

    adverbs: slowly, pitiably, irritably, incoherently, desperately

  • picador
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Ageism. Can you imagine that question being asked about females or blacks? And here I thought our schools bent over backwards to be politically correct!

    Edit. Ageism. And if your assignment does not intrinsically intend that, the answers on either side of mine most explicitly do!

  • ♫♪The Singer♪♫
    1 decade ago

    Withered

    hard of hearing

    loss of memory

    alheimerzs

    withered

    talkative

  • Elmyr
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    grumpy

    stubborn

    ornery

    cantankerous

    curmudgeonly

    Wow, I guess I don't have very good experiences with the elderly.

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  • mizfurrocious
    1 decade ago

    elder, elderly, ancient, arthritic, alzheimers, mature, obsolete, antiquated, senile

  • Big Spider on Your Pillow
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    grey-beard , ancient, oldster, senior,

  • Start The Revolution
    1 decade ago

    you can seperate them into those catagories:

    wrinkled

    gray

    brittle

    glasses

    loving

    grandparents

    death

    caring

    veins

    surgery

    cancer

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