5th grade vocabulary

Question 1

bleak

Answer 1

bare, desolate, and often windswept:

Question 2

dead lights

Answer 2

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

Question 3

molasses

Answer 3

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

Question 4

pinaces

Answer 4

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

Question 5

stout

Answer 5

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

Question 6

disembark

Answer 6

to go ashore from a ship.

Question 7

retching

Answer 7

to make efforts to vomit

Question 8

fringe

Answer 8

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

Question 9

dismay

Answer 9

to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt:

Question 10

forbidding

Answer 10

grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister:

Question 11

fedious

Answer 11

(used chiefly of viviparous mammals) the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation.

Question 12

flattered

Answer 12

to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.

Question 13

voyage

Answer 13

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

Question 14

capstan bars

Answer 14

a long lever for turning a capstan by hand.

Question 15

Quarter deck

Answer 15

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 16

coil

Answer 16

to wind into continuous, regularly spaced rings one above the other:

Question 17

lingered

Answer 17

to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: