Vocabulary
- Plied - Work steadily with a tool
- Protectorate - State that is protected by another
- Fathoms - American Unit of measurement, used in water. Roughly 6 feet
- Pertinent - Relevant to a matter
- Nautilus - Means sailor in Latin
- Nemo - Means nobody in latin
- Prow - Bow of the ship
- Transfigured - Transform into something more beautiful and elegant
- Torpor - State of mental lethargy. Like Brain fog
- Undulations - Action of moving smoothly up/down
- Aquiver - Quivering, trembling
- Pallbearer - Person who carries the coffin at a Funeral service
- Quadrangle - Four sided plane. Quadrilateral
- Phantasmagoric - Fantastic and unbelievable appearance as if in a dream
- Recalcitrant - Obstinately uncooperative towards authority
- Acetabuliferous - Bearer of suction tubes
- Tantaculiferous - Bearer of tentacles
- Eddies - Circular movement of water, causing whirlpools
- Apoplexy - Unconscious from stroke, or extreme anger
- Opalescent - Showing many points of shifting colour
- Coxswain - Sailor in charge of the boat's steering
- Felicitously - In a way that's right and well timed.
- Luxwiant - Lush vegetation
- Mucaliginous - Gelatinous consistency
- Isthmus - Narrow strip of land connecting 2 landmasses, water on either side
- Gunwale - Upper edge of a ship's sides, made thick to support stresses of artillery and guns
- Wheelhouse - Room where the steerer of the ship steers from
- Deadlight - Protective cover over a window
- Proviso - Condition attached to statement
- Protean - Tending to change frequently
- Proteus - God of Waters
- Plutonic - Relating to igneous formations, or the god of the Underworld, Pluto.
- Vehemence - Great forcefulness or expression
- Gam - A leg, usually a woman's leg
- Homeric - Relating to the style of Homer's poems
- Limpid - Completely clear and transparent
- Fleur-de-lis - French lily usually used as a symbol on many aristocratic banners and flags.
- Abeyance - State of temporary disuse
- Monomania - Fixed obsession on one thing
- Crevasse - Deep crack
- Bustard - Large grassland bird
- Promontory - Point of high land jutting out to sea
- Demarcation - Dividing line/Boundary line.