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81 Cards in this Set
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Skiff
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a small, light sailing boat
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Gaff
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a handled hook for holding or lifting heavy fish
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Harpoon
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A large spear or javelin used in hunting large fish or whales
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Furled
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Wrapped or roller (as a sail or flag) close to or around something
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Mast
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A long pole rising from the deck of a ship and supporting the yards, booms (long poles used to extend the feet of sails)
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Gaunt
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Excessively thin or angular; lean
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Benevolent
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Suggestive of good will; kind
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Hoisted
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Raised into position; lifted
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Thwart
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A rower's seat extending athwart (across) a boat
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Bodega
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Spanish for warehouse
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Resolution
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The act of being determined; the act of dealing with a situations confidently; having courage
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Oakum
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Loosely twisted hemp or jute fiber impregnated with tar and used in caulking seams and packing joints
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Roadstead
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A place less enclosed than a harbor where ships may ride at anchor
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Phosphorescence
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Luminescence (an emission of light produced at low temperatures, as the firefly) caused by the absorption of radiations and continues
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Bonito
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Medium-sized tunas, intermediate between the smaller mackerels and the larger tunas
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Albacore
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A large oceanic tuna with long pectoral fins that is the source of most canned tuna
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Fathoms
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Units of length equal to six feet used for measuring the depths of water
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Shank
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The part of a fishhook between the eye and the bend
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Plummets
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plumbs; lead weights attached to lines to indicate a vertical direction
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Desperately
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Hopelessly; despondently
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Stern
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Near the end of the boat
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Ineffectual
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Not producing the proper or usual effect; futile
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Plankton
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The tiny passively floating or weakly swimming plant and animal life of a body of water
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Iridescent
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Having or exhibiting a play of colors producing a rainbow effect
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Gelatinous
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Resembling gelatin or jelly
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Filaments
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Single threads or thin flexible objects or appendages
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Immune
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Not susceptible; marked by protection
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Carapaced
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Protected with a bony covering (as a turtle or crab)
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Elegance
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A refined gracefulness; a richness of style or design
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Loggerhead
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Any or various very large marine turtles
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Grippes
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Contagious viral diseases resembling influenza
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Taut
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Tightly drawn; not slack
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Smacks
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Sailing ships used chiefly in coasting and fishing
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Commenced
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Began; initiated; started
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Prisms
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Crystals which, when light passes through them, produce rainbow colors
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Myriad
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Innumerable; countless; multitudinous
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Annulled
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Obliterated; neutralized
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Bight
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A loop, especially
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Marlin
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A large, oceanic sport fish related to sailfishes and spearfishes
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Imperceptible
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Not known by a sense or by the mind; extremely slight; gradual
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Bitt
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A post fixed in the deck of a ship for securing lines
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Scythe
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A hand-held mowing implement with a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a long handle
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Rapier
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A straight, two-edged sword with a narrow, pointed blade
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Pectoral
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Of, Situated in or on, or worn on the chest
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Treachery
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The state of being faithless or disloyal; treason; perfidy
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Gunwale
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The upper edge of a boat's side
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Surge
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A sudden jerk or strain
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Coagulated
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Clotted; thickness into a mass
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Teetered
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moved unsteadily; wobbled
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Rigor Mortis
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Temporary rigidity of muscles occurring after death
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Conscientiously
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Meticulously; carefully
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Improvise
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To make, invent, or arrange out of what is at hand
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Cumulus
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A massive cloud from having a flat base and rounded outlines often piled up like a mountain
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Cirrus
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A wispy white cloud, usually of minute ice crystals, formed at altitudes of 20,00 to 40,00 feet
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Ptomaine
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Food poisoning caused by bacteria or bacterial products
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Calambre
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Spanish for cramp or spasm
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Humiliates
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Reduces to a lower position in one's own o other's eyes; mortifies; shames
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Pilgrimage
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A journey to a shrine or sacred place
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Juegos
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Spanish for games
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Burnished
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Polished; lustrous; glossy
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Convulsively
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Fitfully; spasmodically; agitatedly
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Dorado
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Spanish for golden
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Sustenance
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Food; nourishment
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Rigel
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A first magnitude star in the left foot of the constellation Orion
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Perils
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Risks; dangers
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Devise
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Invent; plan; plot
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Leprous
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Scaly; scurfy; flaky
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Ceding
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Yielding; granting; giving
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Grudgingly
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Unwillingly; Reluctantly
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Dorsal
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Relating to or situated near the back, especially of an animal or one of its parts
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Interminable
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Ceaseless; seemingly endless
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Splice
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To join, to unite
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Periscope
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To tubular optical instrument containing lenses and mirrors by which an observer contains an otherwise obstructed field of view
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Tiller
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A lever used to turn the rudder (the steering mechanism) of a boat from side to side
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Dispersed
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Scattered; vanished
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Dentuso
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Spainsh colloquialism meaning "toothy" or having large teeth
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Malignancy
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Malice; ill will; desire to cause harm or injury
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Mutilated
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Cut up or radically altered, maimed; destroyed
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Broadside
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The side of a ship above the waterline
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Carcass
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A dead body; a corpse
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Brisa
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Spanish for breeze
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