Friday, April 15, 2011

Vocabulary 1


skiff - scythe - treacheries - intolerable - proprietor - pivoted - la mar 
benevolent - fathom - rapier - humility - gaunt - undulation - plankton
bonito - furled - ineffectual - myriad - pectoral - bight - conscientious phosphorescence - malignancy - filaments
Please match the words above to the definitions below the jump. While some definitions might seem to apply to more than one word, there is one ideal definition for each word. Each one of the words above have been mentioned in the reads we have completed so far.

 Unable to be endured -
The sea -
Well-meaning and kind -
Quality of being modest -
A type of small boat -
Thin or emaciated -
Movement of regular rising and falling -
Small, drifting organisms in the sea -
To roll up a secure something -
Six feet of depth -
Owner of a business -
Turned on a point of rotation -
Medium-sized fish, similar to tuna -
Not producing a desired effect -
Slender, sharply pointed sword -
An indefinitely great number of things -
Situated on or around the chest or breast -
Hand tool with a long curving blade -
A sack part in a rope -
Governed by ones conscience -
Willful betrayal -
Luminescence caused by the absorption of radiation -
The tendency of a condition to become worse -
A think, flexible, threadlike object -

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