Old Words
Ancient Words
Archaic Words
Well-aged Words
Elderly Vocabulary
100

A regular practice or activity, or the hat worn by a nun. 

What is a habit?

100

To remove the head from a creature

What is decapitate?

100

Invented by Philo Farnsworth and others, this device receives signals from a broadcasting station and delivers moving pictures to another device far away. 

What is a television?

100

To trouble or annoy someone with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions - often performed by younger siblings

What is pester?

100

To travel or sail around the entirety of a something spherical like the Earth

What is circumnavigate? 

200

Describes an ink, paint, or idea that cannot be erased

What is indelible?

200

Past tense - to eat or consume hungrily or quickly

What is devoured?

200

The feeling that you have experienced something before, but you haven't - like this definition

What is déjà vu?

200

Cannot be seen

What is invisible?

200

A severe lack of food in a large area or country

What is famine?

300

A male person overly concerned with their looks, or a way of saying something is fine. 

What is a dandy?

300

A woodwind instrument made out of brass and often used in TV theme songs from the seventies and eighties. 

What is a saxaphone?

300

To fall behind in terms of movement or progress

What is lag?

300

Having an inflated opinion of one's own looks or abilities

What is vain?

300

To try to be like everyone else, or for an object to take the same shape as others

What is conform?

400

A person that gets from place to place by walking

What is a pedestrian?

400

Acting without emotion or reaction

What is impassively? 

400

A doctor that works on people's feet

What is a podiatrist?

400

A set group of people that meet regularly to make decisions

What is a committee?

400

A small, shapeless mass of stuff, usually food

What is a dollop?

500

Either to attract sincere attention or a metal peg used to hold large pieces of metal together. 

What is a rivet?

500

A person's outward behavior or way that they carry themself. 

What is demeanor?

500

A liquid that has magical or mystical benefits 

What is an elixir?

500

The quality of being open and honest

What is candor?

500

Untidy or disorderly - usually hair and clothing

What is disheveled?