Vocab Week 25

Question 1

Capsize

Answer 1

When a boat, ship, canoe, raft, ect. turns over in the water and usually sinks.

Question 2

Perilous

Answer 2

Dangerous.

Question 3

Terrain

Answer 3

The land and what it looks like: mountainous, flat, hilly, etc.

Question 4

Grueling

Answer 4

An experience that is very difficult and filled with problems

Question 5

Ablest

Answer 5

A person who can do something better than everyone else

Question 6

Execute

Answer 6

To do or carry out an action.

Question 7

Bail

Answer 7

To scoop water out of a boat that has a leak

Question 8

Lunge

Answer 8

To quickly reach for something, usually leaning with your whole body

Question 9

Dehydration

Answer 9

A health problem you start having when your body doesn’t have enough liquids

Question 10

Rations

Answer 10

A supply of food

Question 11

Rancid

Answer 11

When food is rotten or too old to eat

Question 12

Barren

Answer 12

In this story, it’s when a landscape is bare, with no trees, bushes, grass, etc.

Question 13

Crevasse

Answer 13

A big deep crack in the ice

Question 14

Makeshift

Answer 14

Something that you’ve just made quickly and not very well, usually without the best materials

Question 15

Hulk

Answer 15

A big object