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/peɪd ðɛər rɪˈspɛkts/

To show reverence, admiration, or sympathy for someone, especially by visiting them or attending a ceremony.

prehistory
/ˌpriːˈhɪstəri/ /ˌpriːˈhɪstri/

Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.

mementoes
/məˈmɛntoʊz/ /məˈmɛntəʊz/

A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

butterfly effect
/ˈbʌtərflaɪ ɪˈfɛkt/

(by extension) The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present.

bathing machines
/ˈbeɪðɪŋ məˈʃiːnz/

Around the 19th century, a portable changing room that was rolled down a beach to the edge of the sea to allow people to paddle in the sea modestly.

go back
/ɡoʊ bæk/ /ɡəʊ bæk/

To extend into past time.

cavemen
/ˈkeɪvmɛn/

An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.

past tense
/ˈpæst tɛns/ /ˈpɑːst tɛns/

(grammar) A grammatical form (often a verb form) that is used in a conditional expression to refer to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that is hypothetical and often counterfactual.

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/ˈænsɛstrəl raɪts/

Ceremonies or customs performed in honor of or in memory of one's ancestors.

twin
twinverb
/twɪn/

(obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.

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/bi wɛl ədˈvænst ɪn ˈjɪərz/

To be old or elderly.

palaeoecology
/ˌpælioʊɪˈkɒlədʒi/ /ˌpeɪlioʊɪˈkɒlədʒi/

The study of past ecologies by using the evidence of fossils

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/keɪm ˈskræmblɪŋ aʊt/

To emerge quickly and awkwardly, often in a hurried or chaotic manner.

cobwebs
/ˈkɒbˌwɛbz/ /ˈkɑːbˌwɛbz/

(usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories

lunates
/ˈluːneɪts/ /ˈljuːneɪts/

A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period

backcast
/ˈbækˌkæst/ /ˈbækˌkɑːst/

A cast or throw back.

hist
histnoun
/hɪst/

The aggregate of past events.

hoary
hoaryadjective
/hɔː.ɹi/ /hɔɹ.i/

Remote in time past.

remembrance
/ɹɪ.ˈmɛm.bɹəns/

The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.

thence
thenceadverb
/ðɛns/

From that time; thenceforth; thereafter