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Time On Our Hands......
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| anachronism: anything that is out of place in time. | |
| anon: soon; shortly. | |
| antebellum: before the war; especially before the American Civil War. | |
| antediluvian: old-fashioned; before the flood. | |
| atavism: reversion to a primitive type; resemblance to a remote ancestor. | |
| augury: the art of prophecy; an omen. | |
| betimes: early; promptly; before it is too late. | |
| biennial: happening every two years. | |
| diurnal: daily; of the daytime. | |
| eon: long; indefinite period of time; thousands of years. | |
| ephemeral: short-lived; transitory. | |
| epoch: noteworthy period. | |
| generation: the period of time between the birth of one group and that of its off-spring. | |
| score: twenty people or objects; twenty years. | |
| tercentenary: a period of three hundred years. | |