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LESSON # 23Here Today, gone Tomorrow!Words Relating to Being Short Lived in Time or Place

EPHEMERALAdj. Fleeting; lasting

a short time

EPHEMERALDave has followed baseball steadily

since he was nine, but his interest in other sports has been EPHEMERAL.

To a child, time goes by slowly; to an old man, it’s EPHEMERAL.

EVANESCENTAdj. vanishing quickly;

fleeting

EVANESCENTSnowfall in the spring is usually

EVANESCENT; it melts quickly.Old timers tend to lament the

EVANESCENCE of youth.

FLEETINGAdj. short lived

SUNSET is FLEETING!

FLEETINGWillie and Wanda had a FLEETING

romance. Their fling couldn’t have lasted more than 24 hours.

Time is FLEETING when you are enjoying yourself, while pain seems to last forever.

ITINERANTAdj. wandering about;

tending to move around, travel

ITINERANTSusan and Ellie wandered

around Europe for months, enjoying a carefree, ITEINERANT life.

Peter’s ITINERARY for two weeks included stops in ten cities and five countries.

NOMADICAdj. wandering

NOMADICNOMADIC tribes wandered

endlessly about the Arabian peninsula.

Oren, like a NOMAD, cannot settle down in one place. He has to keep moving.

PERIPATETICAdj. Moving or walking about; itinerant

PERIPATETICMrs. Shivers paces

PERIPATETICALLY around the room during lecture and discussion.

Lila was exhausted after a PERIPATETIC shopping trip to the city. She walked from store to store to store all day long!

TRANSIENTAdj. lasting for only a short time; temporary

TRANSIENTThe motel serves a TRANSIENT

clientele. Few visitors stay for more than a night.

The large number of houses for sale suggests that the population here is TRANSIENT.

TRANSITORYAdj. fleeting

TRANSITORYThe morning fog is TRANSITORY. It

burns off quickly.The joy of winning a game is a

TRANSITORY feeling. It lasts only until the next game.

VOLATILEAdj. explosive or

changing very quickly

VOLATILELou has a VOLATILE temper.

He can turn angry in an instant.Careful where you store that

can. It contains VOLATILE fuel that blows up when heated.