VOCABULARY Focus

Seasons of Life:

Childhood: infancy  pester power, Disney films, picture books, innocence, tree climbing, fairy tales, den building, school age, junior

Teenage Years: puberty, adolescent, inexperienced, puerile, immature, green, raw, undeveloped, blossoming, flowering, naïve, unaware, freshman, fresh meat

Youth: minor, juvenile, salad days, fresh-faced, legal age ( the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs)

Adulthood: grown up, of age, prime of life, manhood, parentage, maturity, ripened, full bloom, completion, ripe, fertile.

Old Age: aged, long-lived, old, oldish, full-bloom, golden age, over-the-hill, senile, barren, retired, seasoned.

Re-Birth: reanissance, awakening, reincarnation, comeback, outset, reborn, regeneration, renewal, resurrection, reinvention,reactivation. 

New words:

• alumnus/ alumni ( plural)

 - Alumnus and alumna stem from Latin alere, "to nourish or be nourished," now by a university; originally alumnus was a pupil and now it is a male graduate. Alumni refers to either sex. Farlex Trivia Dictionary

• mythomania (ˌmɪθəʊˈmeɪnɪə) - Collins English Dictionary  

 (Psychiatry) psychiatry the tendency to lie, exaggerate, or relate incredible imaginary adventures as if they had really happened, occurring in some mental disorders.

mythomaniac n, adj