5th grade vocabulary

Question 1

Bleak

Answer 1

exposed and barren and often windswept

Question 2

Deadlights

Answer 2

a metal cover or shutter fitted to a port to keep out light and water

Question 3

Molasses

Answer 3

the thick dark to light brown syrup that is separated from raw sugar in sugar manufacture

Question 4

Pinnace

Answer 4

one used as a tender

Question 5

Stout

Answer 5

strong of character: such as

Question 6

Quarterdeck

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Retching

Answer 7

to make an effort to vomit

Question 8

Dismay

Answer 8

to cause to lose courage or resolution (as because of alarm or fear)

Question 9

capstan bar

Answer 9

a long lever for turning a capstan by hand

Question 10

Sun bleached

Answer 10

To be bleached by the sun

Question 11

Admiration

Answer 11

a feeling of respect and approval

Question 12

Tedious

Answer 12

: tiresome because of length or dullness

Question 13

Disembark

Answer 13

to remove to shore from a ship

Question 14

Forbidding

Answer 14

such as to make approach or passage difficult or impossible

Question 15

Flattered

Answer 15

made to feel pleased by something gratifying (such as an honor or a sign or respect or deference)

Question 16

voyage

Answer 16

: a course or period of traveling by other than land routes