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Things adult often describes ("adult ________")
- franchise
- beings
- cells
- mice
- cats
- worms
- animals
- male
- males
- size
- development
- health
- illiteracy
- education
- individuals
- baptism
- body
- literacy
- liver
- crime
- offenders
- responsibility
- speech
- rat
- son
- plumage
- muscle
- daughters
- birds
- female
- learners
- child
- females
- relationships
- children
- audience
- supervision
- disease
- person
- help
- leader
- suffrage
- populations
- programs
- personality
- sexuality
- population
- educators
- psychopathology
- court
- care
- readers
- authority
- mammals
- status
- sons
- citizens
- age
- offspring
- rats
- subjects
- survivors
- women
- life
- sheep
- services
- member
- behavior
- community
- animal
- brain
- learning
- conversation
- men
- roles
- hemoglobin
- classes
- skull
- fish
- onset
- members
- volunteers
- relatives
- students
- syndrome
- workers
- society
- monkeys
- patients
How adult often is described ("________ adult")
- extra
- retarded
- incompetent
- successful
- single
- sub
- elderly
- handicapped
- civilized
- intelligent
- immature
- average
- aged
- adolescent
- adjusted
- young
- disabled
- sympathetic
- productive
- autonomous
- competent
- formal
- normal
- experienced
- healthy
- grown
- ill
- appropriate
- active
- senior
- unmarried
- supportive
- responsible
- usual
- superior
- literate
- sophisticated
- wise
- winged
- older
- deaf
- neurotic
- sized
- younger
- happy
- familiar
- equivalent
- sane
- male
- female
- mature
- typical
- unfamiliar
- middle
- independent
- friendly
- injured
- miniature
- strange
- human
- dependent
- rational
- vulnerable
- obese
- bodied
- interested
