5 grade vocabulary

Question 1

Bleak

Answer 1

without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary:

Question 2

Dead light

Answer 2

a strong shutter able to be screwed against the interior of a porthole in heavy weather.

Question 3

Forbidding

Answer 3

dangerous; threatening:

forbidding clouds; forbidding cliffs.

Question 4

prudence

Answer 4

caution with regard to practical matters; discretion.

regard for one’s own interests.

Question 5

shabby

Answer 5

must feel shabby … because of his compromises.

Question 6

stowing

Answer 6

to lock up for safekeeping.

Question 7

eagerness

Answer 7

marked by enthusiastic or impatient desire or interest.

Question 8

wistful

Answer 8

full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy

Question 9

Aft

Answer 9

near, toward, or in the stern of a ship or the tail of an aircraft

Question 10

Draft

Answer 10

chiefly British, informal

Question 11

Slight

Answer 11

having a slim or delicate build : lacking in strength

Question 12

Blanched

Answer 12

to scald briefly and then drain, as peaches or almonds to facilitate removal of skins, or as rice or macaroni to separate the grains or strands.

Question 13

stern

Answer 13

hard, harsh, or severe:

Question 14

fringe

Answer 14

anything resembling or suggesting this:

Question 15

coil

Answer 15

to wind on a flat surface into rings one around the other:

Question 16

Tryst

Answer 16

an appointed meeting.

Question 17

Gleam

Answer 17

a brief or slight manifestation or occurrence; trace:

Question 18

Remit

Answer 18

to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place,

Question 19

Novel

Answer 19

portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.

Question 20

rebuked

Answer 20

sharp, stern disapproval; reproof

Question 21

sundry

Answer 21

various or diverse: