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adolescent

adjective as in preadult or immature

noun as in person in puberty, preadulthood

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Until that point, Skye rues that she had lived like an adult since childhood, the inevitable consequence of entering Hollywood as an adolescent and lacking conventional parental guidance.

So, just as any other adolescent, she turned to her mother, who proceeded to laugh in her face.

Two adolescents living in one of the worker’s homes also became sick.

Chances are, you are living in the climate equivalent of one of those popsicle-stick houses held together by Elmer’s Glue and adolescent exuberance.

After leaving the military, Burkle became a medical polymath, qualified in five different specialties he felt would be necessary: emergency medicine, pediatrics, adolescent medicine, public health and psychiatry.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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