TIME I
From The Word's the Thing
Dr. Louis D. Appel

The answer to each clue below will be a word associated with time.

1. To precede or come before
2. Lasting a short time
3. Coincide in time - as watches
4. Published or given after death - as an award
5. Active during the day
6. Active during the night
7. Very old fashioned and out of date, obsolete
8. Arranged in order of time
9. Before the Biblical Flood
10. Before the Civil War
11. Before the Fall of Man
12. Daily, commonplace
13. An earlier case or event cited as an example
14. Talented or gifted beyond one's years
15. Measurement of the year by fixed stars, not the sun
16. Suspension or deferment of action
17. Occurring at intervals

Answers:

1. Antedate
2. Ephemeral
3. Synchronize
4. Posthumous
5. Diurnal
6. Nocturnal
7. Archaic
8. Chronological
9. Antediluvian
10. Antebellum
11. Prelapsarian
12. Quotidian
13. Precedent
14. Precocious
15. Sidereal 
16. Moratorium 
17. Periodic  

[Specialized Vocabulary]