5th grade vocabulary

Question 1

bleak

Answer 1

bare, desolate, and often windswept

Question 2

deadlights

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

pinnaces

Answer 4

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

Question 5

sun bleached

Answer 5

sat in the sun to long

Question 6

stout

Answer 6

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

Question 7

disembark

Answer 7

to go ashore from a ship

Question 8

dismay

Answer 8

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

Question 9

quarter deck

Answer 9

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 10

tedious

Answer 10

marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome

Question 11

capstan bars

Answer 11

any of various windlasses, rotated in a horizontal plane by hand or machinery, for winding in ropes, cables, etc

Question 12

scarcely

Answer 12

barely; hardly; not quite

Question 13

coil

Answer 13

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

Question 14

stench

Answer 14

an offensive smell or odor; stink

Question 15

forbidding

Answer 15

grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister

Question 16

fringe

Answer 16

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

Question 17

rigging

Answer 17

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