Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 2 – We’re Not Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together (Gorden Cook and Alan East) Word meanings

 

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Chapter 2 – We’re Not Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together (Gorden Cook and Alan East)

Word meanings

  1. Abated – something unpleasant to become less intense
  2. Aft – near the stern of the ship
  3. Anchored – moor a ship to the sea bottom
  4. Ashore – on the shore of the land
  5. Atrocious – bad; of a very poor quality
  6. Auxiliary engine – small secondary engine Bashed – strike hard; hit
  7. Bleak – an area of land lacking vegetation
  8. Bulged – swell
  9. Bunk – bed
  10. Canvas – a strong unbleached cloth
  11. Capsizing – be overturned in the water
  12. Caricatures – picture of a person; cartoon
  13. Crest – reach the top of a wave
  14. Debris – rubbish
  15. Deck – a floor of a ship
  16. Deflected: turned aside
  17. Deteriorate – get worse
  18. Dinghies – a small boat for recreation with mast or sail
  19. Donned – put on, wore
  20. Dozed off – went off to sleep 
  21. Enormous – a very large size
  22. Forestay – a rope to support ship’s foremast
  23. Frightful – very unpleasant or shocking
  24. Gales – A very strong wind
  25. Gigantic – huge; of a big size
  26. Hatch – door
  27. Heave to – to raise or lift with effort
  28. Honing – sharpen, improving
  29. Hull – the framework of the vessel
  30. Hurled – throw with a great force
  31. Impending – about to happen
  32. Jib – a triangular staysail set forward the mast in a ship
  33. Keel – steel structure along the base of the ship
  34. Knots – a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds
  35. Lashed – to hit with a lot of force
  36. Leisure – free time
  37. Loop – a shape produced that bends round and crosses; bent
  38. Mast – a tall upright structure on a boat or ship
  39. Mayday calls –words used to signal ships stuck in a disastrous situation through radio
  40. Mooring – the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored
  41. Offshore – situated at the sea some distance from the shore
  42. Oilskins – heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with oil
  43. Ominous silence – unpleasant or threatening silence
  44. Optimistic – hopeful and confident
  45. Pinpricks – a prick caused by a pin
  46. Respite – a short period of rest
  47. Rigging – the ropes and wires supporting the structure of the ship
  48. Scrambled – climb; claw one’s way
  49. Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
  50. Sextant – an instrument with graduated arc of 60 degrees for taking altitudes and navigation
  51. Shook – past tense of shake (vibrate)
  52. Sloshed – move through liquid with a splashing sound.
  53. Smashed – badly broken
  54. Smashed – shattered or violently broken
  55. Starboard – side of a ship which is on the right side when one is facing forward
  56. Stark – sharply defined
  57. Stern – the back part of a ship or a boat
  58. Taut – stretched or pulled tightly
  59. Timbers – wood board used in building of a ship
  60. Torrent – a fast moving stream of water
  61. Tousled head – disarranged hair of the narrator’s son, Jonathan
  62. Tremendous – very great in amount
  63. Voyage – a long journey by sea or space
  64. Wooden-hulled – a watertight body of a ship
  65. Wrenched – pull suddenly, removed

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