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DISQUIETUDE PG. 85
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: Anxiety, Agitation Sentence: Full of disquietude and misgiving, the surgeon left the cabin.
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DEMARCATION PG. 87
Part of Speech: Verb Definition: To show the limits or edges of (something) Sentence: but in some supposed cases, in various degrees supposedly less pronounced, to draw the exact line of demarcation few will undertake, though for a fee becoming considerate some professional experts will.
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PORTMANTEAU PG. 9
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: a large suitcase that opens into two parts Sentence: here he comes; and by Jove, lugging along his chestApollo with his portmanteau!
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CALAMITOUS PG. 19
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: causing great harm or suffering Sentence: If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss of calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumference may without reproach be equally discreet.
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GALLANTRY PG. 20
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: very brave behavior Sentence: But as ashore knightly valor, though shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights, neither on the seasthough nowadays in encounters there a certain kind of displayed gallantry
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ABROGATION PG. 24
Part of Speech: Verb Definition: to end or cancel (something) in a formal and official way Sentence: Its abrogation would have crippled the indispensible fleet, one wholly under the canvas
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PROLIFIC PG. 26
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: producing a large amount of something Sentence: a sailor of distinction even in time prolific of renowned seamen.
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PROTUBERANT PG. 33
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: sticking out from a surface usually with a curved or rounded shape Sentence: ... had something of strange protuberant broadness in its make that recalled Reverend Dr. Titus Oates...
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JUXTAPOSITION PG. 46
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side Sentence: Now there can exist no irritating juxtaposition of dissimilar personalities comparable to that which is possible aboard a great warship fully manned and at sea.
ALACRITY PG. 38
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: a quick and cheerful readiness to do something Sentence: This heightened alacrity had it's cause, namely the impression made upon him by the first formal gangway punishment he had ever witnessed...
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CONTUMELIOUS PG. 54
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: insolently abusive and humiliating Sentence: ... Besides inventing for his mouth sundry contumelious epithets he claimed to have overheard him left fall.
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CASTIGATION PG. 59
Part of Speech: Verb Definition: to criticize (someone) harshly Sentence: "Such sneaks I should like to marry to the gunner's daughter!" by that expression meaning he would like to subject them to disciplinary castigation over a gun.
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PROMISCUOUS PG. 65
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: including or involving too many people or things Sentence: ... His life afloat is externally ruled for him; he is not brought into that promiscuous commerce with mankind...
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ADMONITION PG. 67
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: a criticism or warning about behavior Sentence: And the thews of Billy were hardly compatible with that sort if sensitive spiritual organization which in some cases instinctively concerts to ignorant innocence and admonition of the proximity of the malign.
IGNOMINIOUSLY PG. 68
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: causing disgrace or shame Sentence: ... And the man he had sought to entrap as a simpleton had though his very simplicity ignominiously baffled him.
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USURER PG. 55
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: a person who lends money and requires the borrower to pay a high amount of interest Sentence: for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?
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YEOMAN PG. 68
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: an officer in the U.S. Navy who works as a clerk Sentence: Never did it occur to Billy as a thing to be noted or a thing suspicious, though he well knew the fact, that the armorer and captain of the hold, with the ships yeoman, apothecary, and others of that grade
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ARDUOUS PG. 29
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: very difficult Sentence: Unlike no few of Englands renowned sailors, long and arduous service with signal devotion to it had not resulted in absorbing and salting the entire man.
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TACITLY PG. 99
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: expressed or understood without being directly stated Sentence: With that, crossing the deck he resumed his place by the sashed porthole, tacitly leaving the three to come to a decision.
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ANNUL PG. 52
Part of Speech: Verb Definition: to say officially that something is no longer valid : to make (something) legally void Sentence: With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough so he could hide it
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SATIRIC PG. 75
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: of, relating to, or constituting satire Sentence: Captain Vere, though mistakenly understanding it as a satiric sally, had but thought so much the better of the impressed man for it
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VISAGE PG. 67
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: a person's face Sentence: by an immitigable look, pinching and shriveling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut.
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EXTENUATE PG. 98
Part of Speech: Verb Definition: to make light of Sentence: And before a court less arbitrary and more merciful than a martial one that would largely extenuate.
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VITRIOL PG. 53
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: harsh and angry words Sentence: Even so was it that into the gall of Claggart envy he infused the vitriol of this he contempt.
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PROMENADE PG. 66
Part of Speech: Verb Definition: to walk in a public place for pleasure Sentence: exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd, that glance would follow the cheerful Hyperion
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ANTECEDENTS PG. 34
Part of Speech: Noun Definition: something that came before something else and may have influenced or caused it Sentence: these were circumstances which in the dearth of exact knowledge as to his true antecedents opened to the invidious a vague field for unfavorable surmise.
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INIQUITOUS PG. 57
Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: very unfair or evil Sentence: ... almost an incapacity of plumply saying no to an abrupt obviously unfriendly, not iniquitous.
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