OLD AGE AND DEATH II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Specialized Vocabulary

The answers to the clues below will be words associated with old age and death.

1. Long life

2. Euphemism for death

3. Synonym for deadly or fatal

4. Old word for burial chamber 

5. Euphemism for an undertaker

6. Obsolete due to old age or new technologies

7. A large cemetery belonging to an ancient city

8. A wise old man, based on a king in Greek mythology

9. Branch of medicine that deals with the conditions of old age

10. A very old man, based on the Old Testament man who lived 969 years 

11. The public official charged with the responsibility to investigate the cause of any unnatural death

12. To express sympathy and respect to the family of someone who has just died is to give your _____.

 

Answers:

 

1. Longevity

2. Demise

3. Lethal

4. Sepulchre

5. Mortician

6. Superannuated

7. Necropolis

8. Nestor

9. Gerontology

10. Methusalah

11. Coroner

12. Condolences