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81 Cards in this Set

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