American Lit Vocab Week 10

Zenith

• the time at which something is most powerful or successful.
• (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.
• of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
• gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.

Sentimental

• of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
• a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
• the time at which something is most powerful or successful.
• fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force.

Inattentive

• not paying attention to something.
• characterized by or exhibiting feelings of nostalgia.
• no longer produced or used; out of date.
• a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.

Nostalgic

• characterized by or exhibiting feelings of nostalgia.
• fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force.
• not paying attention to something.
• (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.

Accumulate

• gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
• keep (someone or something) afloat.
• fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force.
• characterized by or exhibiting feelings of nostalgia.

Senile

• (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.
• gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
• keep (someone or something) afloat.
• the time at which something is most powerful or successful.

Buoyed

• keep (someone or something) afloat.
• no longer produced or used; out of date.
• gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
• of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

Obsolete

• no longer produced or used; out of date.
• not paying attention to something.
• characterized by or exhibiting feelings of nostalgia.
• keep (someone or something) afloat.

Succumbed

• fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force.
• of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
• a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
• no longer produced or used; out of date.

Patron

• a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
• the time at which something is most powerful or successful.
• (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.
• not paying attention to something.