5th grade vocabulary

Question 1

Flattered

Answer 1

To try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.

Question 2

Voyage

Answer 2

A course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

Question 3

Scarcely

Answer 3

Barely; hardly; not quite:

The light is so dim we can scarcely see.

Question 4

Rigging

Answer 4

The ropes, chains, etc., employed to support and work the masts, yards, sails, etc., on a ship.

Question 5

Bleached

Answer 5

To make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.

Question 6

Coil

Answer 6

To wind into continuous, regularly spaced rings one above the other:
to coil a wire around a pencil.

Question 7

Slight

Answer 7

Small in amount, degree, etc.:

a slight increase; a slight odor.

Question 8

Bleak

Answer 8

Bare, desolate, and often windswept:

a bleak plain.

Question 9

Fringe

Answer 9

A decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.

Question 10

Pinnaces

Answer 10

A light sailing ship, especially one formerly used in attendance on a larger ship.

Question 11

Molasses

Answer 11

A thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, varying from light to dark brown in color.

Question 12

Stench

Answer 12

An offensive smell or odor; stink.

Question 13

Dead lights

Answer 13

A strong shutter able to be screwed against the interior of a porthole in heavy weather.

Question 14

Admiration

Answer 14

A feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.

Question 15

Stout

Answer 15

Bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat:

She is getting too stout for her dresses.

Question 16

Capstan bars

Answer 16

A long lever for turning a capstan by hand.

Question 17

Quarter deck

Answer 17

The part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.

Question 18

Tedious

Answer 18

Marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome:

tedious tasks; a tedious journey.

Question 19

Retching

Answer 19

To make efforts to vomit.

Question 20

Disembark

Answer 20

To go ashore from a ship.

Question 21

Dismay

Answer 21

To break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt:
The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.

Question 22

Forbidding

Answer 22

Grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister:

his forbidding countenance.

Question 23

Shabbily

Answer 23

Impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn:

shabby clothes.

Question 24

Impulse

Answer 24

The influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.:

to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.

Question 25

Anticipation

Answer 25

Expectation or hope.

Question 26

Appealed

Answer 26

An earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.

Question 27

Scowled

Answer 27

To draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.

Question 28

Clambered

Answer 28

To climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.

Question 29

Hawser

Answer 29

A heavy rope for mooring or towing.

Question 30

Tainted

Answer 30

A trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.

Question 31

Throng

Answer 31

A multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.

Question 32

Stowing

Answer 32

To put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them.