Words to Describe past
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Things past often describes ("past ________")
- records
- wrongs
- generations
- offences
- weeks
- centuries
- actions
- discrimination
- practices
- practice
- efforts
- successes
- hour
- minutes
- days
- performances
- couple
- noon
- participles
- hours
- month
- week
- experiences
- record
- experience
- wars
- failures
- presidents
- lives
- traditions
- years
- masters
- participle
- history
- research
- policies
- months
- mistakes
- conduct
- season
- summer
- ages
- deeds
- tense
- master
- decisions
- sins
- president
- accomplishments
- glories
- century
- age
- generation
- life
- decades
- memories
- behavior
- decade
- achievements
- year
- tenses
- errors
- behaviour
- winter
- events
- midnight
- trends
- times
- performance
- quarter
- event
- glory
How past often is described ("________ past")
- evolutionary
- geological
- golden
- feudal
- colonial
- dead
- distant
- simple
- shared
- primitive
- ancestral
- remembered
- infinite
- usable
- shady
- traumatic
- historic
- dim
- painful
- revolutionary
- irrevocable
- cultural
- indian
- hoary
- soviet
- classical
- unknown
- mighty
- half
- far
- prehistoric
- pagan
- african
- heroic
- mysterious
- mythic
- idealized
- geologic
- historical
- american
- own
- immediate
- criminal
- checkered
- russian
- mythical
- troubled
- colorful
- near
- long
- violent
- legendary
- remote
- european
- fortnight
- recent
- happy
- imperial
- unhappy
- islamic
- rural
- collective
- glorious
- medieval
- rich
- tragic
- communist
- romantic
- literary
- dark
- roman
- ancient
