5th grade vocabulary Flashcards
to get a 3 on it.:)
Flattered
To try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
Voyage
A course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.
Scarcely
Barely; hardly; not quite:
The light is so dim we can scarcely see.
Rigging
The ropes, chains, etc., employed to support and work the masts, yards, sails, etc., on a ship.
Bleached
To make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
Coil
To wind into continuous, regularly spaced rings one above the other:
to coil a wire around a pencil.
Slight
Small in amount, degree, etc.:
a slight increase; a slight odor.
Bleak
Bare, desolate, and often windswept:
a bleak plain.
Fringe
A decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
Pinnaces
A light sailing ship, especially one formerly used in attendance on a larger ship.
Molasses
A thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, varying from light to dark brown in color.
Stench
An offensive smell or odor; stink.
Dead lights
A strong shutter able to be screwed against the interior of a porthole in heavy weather.
Admiration
A feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
Stout
Bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat:
She is getting too stout for her dresses.
Capstan bars
A long lever for turning a capstan by hand.
Quarter deck
The part of a weather deck that runs aft from the midship area or the mainmast to the stern or poop of a vessel.
Tedious
Marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome:
tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
Retching
To make efforts to vomit.
Disembark
To go ashore from a ship.
Dismay
To break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt:
The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
Forbidding
Grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister:
his forbidding countenance.
Shabbily
Impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn:
shabby clothes.
Impulse
The influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.:
to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.