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1. Acerbity Alacrity Appellation Arduous Austere Axiom Behest Circumambient Clandestine Clement Cumbersome Cynosure Demarcation Denizen Epithet Gainsay Ignominious Incongruous Jocosely Jovial Magnanimity Martinet Mitigated Oblong Pabulum Pedantic Poignantly Promulgated Pugnacious Regicidal Rotund Ruminate Surmise Tangible Veracity

2. Ruminate Go to Picture • Part of Speech: verb • Definition: to meditate or muse; ponder • “‘Why? they will ruminate.’” (pg. 99). • Picture from: http://oxsite.com/blog/2012/03/15/250-extra-hours-of-daylight-a-year/ponder/

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4. Rotund Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: round in shape; rounded; plump; fat • “When some days afterwards, in reference to the singularity just mentioned, the purser, a rather ruddy, rotund person more accurate as an accountant than profound as a philosopher, said at mess to the surgeon, ‘What testimony to the force lodged in will power,’ the latter, saturnine, spare, and tall, one in whom a discreet causticity went along with a manner less genial than polite, replied, “Your pardon, Mr. Purser.’” (pg. 116). • Picture from: http://www.wpclipart.com/cartoon/animals/bird/rotund_singing_robin.png.html

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6. Tangible Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial • “Any tangible object associated with some striking incident of the service is converted into a monument.” (pg. 126). • Picture from: http://uidresearch.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/tangible-object-tests/

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8. Pusillanimous Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid; proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit • “‘Your clement sentence they would account pusillanimous.’” (pg. 99). • Picture from: http://www.bluntmoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/coward1.jpg

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10. Pugnacious Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative • “At all events, of these thousands of mutineers were some of the tars who not so very long afterwards-whether wholly prompted thereto by patriotism, or pugnacious instinct, or by both-helped to win a coronet for Nelson at the Nile, and the naval crown of crowns for him at Trafalgar.” (pg. 19). • Picture from: http://styleinspired.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/manny-pacquiao-and-oscar.jpg

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12. Promulgated Go to Picture • Part of Speech: verb • Definition: (pertaining to promulgate) to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation • “Just below him on the quarter-deck the marines in full equipment were drawn up much as at the scene of the promulgated sentence.” (pg. 114). • Picture from: http://www.aurkia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/promulgate.jpg

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14. Poignantly Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adverb • Definition: (pertaining to poignant) keenly distressing to the feelings; keen or strong in mental appeal • “Syllables so unanticipated coming from one with the ignominious hemp about his neck-a conventional felon’s benediction directed aft towards the quarter of honor; syllables too delivered in the clear melody of a singing bird on the point of launching from the twig-had a phenomenal effect, not unenhanced by the rare personal beauty of the young sailor, spiritualized now through late experiences so poignantly profound.” (pg. 114). • Picture from: http://www.ekantipur.com/uploads/tkp/news/2012/gallery_11_26/drama_mask_20121127085412.jpg

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16. Pabulum Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment; material for intellectual nourishment • “But in view of the greediness of hate for pabulum it hardly needed a purveyor to feed Claggart’s passion.” (pg. 54). • Picture from: http://www.now-us.eu/Pabulum/images/Mind%20food.jpg

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18. Oblong Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: elongated, usually from the square or circular form • “Aft, and on either side, was a small stateroom, the one now temporarily a jail and on the other a dead-house, and a yet smaller compartment, leaving a space between expanding forward into a goodly oblong of length coinciding with the ship’s beam.” (pg. 90). • Picture from: http://www.inlineovals.com/product_images/l/113/551lhrs__58362_zoom.jpg

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20. Mitigated Go to Picture • Part of Speech: verb • Definition: (pertaining to mitigate) to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to make less severe • “Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?” (pg. 51). • Picture from: http://www.blackswanriskconsulting.com/storage/Mitigation%20Dice.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1303741537092

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22. Martinet Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one; someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules • “That such variance from usage was authorized by an officer like Captain Vere, a martinet as some deemed him, was evidence of the necessity for unusual action implied in what he deemed to be temporarily the mood of his men.” (pg. 121). • Picture from: http://img.tfd.com/wn/7C/692FD-martinet.jpg

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24. Magnanimity Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: the quality of being generous in forgiving an insult or injury • “And, probably, had such a step been suggested to him, he would have been deterred from taking it by the thought, one of novice magnanimity, that it would savor overmuch of the dirty work of a telltale.” (pg. 62). • Picture from: http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2012/04/woman-forgiving-family-member.jpg

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26. Ignominious Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: marked by or attended with disgrace or dishonor; discreditable; humiliating • “Syllables so unanticipated coming from one with the ignominious hemp about his neck-a conventional felon’s benediction directed aft towards the quarter of honor; syllables too delivered in the clear melody of a singing bird on the point of launching from the twig-had a phenomenal effect, not unenhanced by the rare personal beauty of the young sailor, spiritualized now through late experiences so poignantly profound.” (pg. 114). • Picture from: http://www.illustrationsof.com/royalty-free-shy-clipart-illustration-1129152.jpg

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28. Gainsay Go to Picture • Part of Speech: verb • Definition: to deny, dispute, or contradict; to speak or act against; oppose • “Loyal lieges, plain and practical, though at bottom they dissented from some points Captain Vere had put to them, they were without the faculty, hardly had the inclination, to gainsay one whom they felt to be an earnest man, one too not less their superior in mind than in naval rank.” (pg. 100). • Picture from: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UVY_lj4BUA0/UFl4R32kSQI/AAAAAAAAApo/9mBuXeswFo4/s1600/opposition.jpg

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30. Epithet Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality; a characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name, title, or the like, as “man's best friend” for “dog” • “The latter is known, and without exaggeration in the epithet, as the ‘Great Mutiny.’” (pg. 17). • Picture from: ~made by Adelina Rolea~

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32. Denizen Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: an inhabitant; resident; a person who regularly frequents a place • “‘With mankind,’ he would say, ‘forms, measured forms, are everything; and that is the import couched in the story of Orpheus with his lyre spellbinding the wild denizen of the wood.’” • Picture from: http://www.colourbox.com/preview/2660205-824837-3d-person-standing-next-to-the-house-with-a-golden-key-in-hand.jpg

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34. Demarcation Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something; separation by distinct boundaries • “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.” (pg. 87). • Picture from: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/marking-points-map-4976045.jpg

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36. Cumbersome • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: burdensome; troublesome; unwieldy; clumsy • “Mounted on lumbering wooden carriages, they were hampered with cumbersome harness of breeching and strong side-tackles for running them out.” (pg. 107).

37. Clement • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: mild or merciful in disposition or character; lenient; compassionate • “‘Your clement sentence they would account pusillanimous.’” (pg. 99).

38. Clandestine • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious • “But from what he had that afternoon observed in the man referred to, the suspicion of something clandestine going on had advanced to a point less removed from certainty.” (pg. 73).

39. Circumambient • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: surrounding; encompassing • “And the circumambient air in the clearness of its serenity was like smooth white marble in the polished block not yet removed from the marble-dealer’s yard.” (pg.121).

40. Behest • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: a command or directive; an earnest or strongly worded request • “The austere devotee of military duty, letting himself melt back into hat remains primeval in our formalized humanity, may in end have caught Billy to his heart, even as Abraham may have caught young Isaac on the brink of resolutely offering him up bin obedience to the exacting behest.” (pg. 103).

41. Axiom • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: a self-evident truth that requires no proof; a universally accepted principle or rule • “After scanning their faces he stood less as mustering his thoughts for expressing than as one inly deliberating how best to put them to well-meaning men not intellectually mature, men with whom it was necessary to demonstrate certain principles that were axioms to himself.” (pg. 95).

42. Austere Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding; rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent • “The austere devotee of military duty, letting himself melt back into hat remains primeval in our formalized humanity, may in end have caught Billy to his heart, even as Abraham may have caught young Isaac on the brink of resolutely offering him up bin obedience to the exacting behest.” (pg. 103). • Picture from: http://www.usmilitary.com/18284/why-should-i-become-a-military-officer/military-officer/

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44. Arduous Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult; requiring or using much energy and vigor; strenuous • “Unlike no few of England’s renowned sailors, long and arduous service with signal devotion to it had not resulted in absorbing and salting the entire man.” (pg. 29). • Picture from: http://udleditions.cast.org/GLOSSARY,call_of_the_wild,arduous.html#A

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46. Alacrity Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; liveliness; briskness • “For the cabin’s proprietor there was nothing left but to play the part of the enforced host with whatever grace and alacrity were predictable.” (pg. 7). • Picture from: http://grepicture.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/alacrity.jpg

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48. Acerbity Go to Picture • Part of Speech: noun • Definition: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste; harshness or severity • “It is serious, but free from acerbity.” (pg. 48). • Picture from: http://www.planetranger.com/volunthai/photos/large/L381433.jpg

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50. Jovial Go to Picture • Part of Speech: adjective • Definition: endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good-fellowship • “In jovial sallies right and left, his white teeth flashing into view, he rollicked along, the center of a company of his shipmates.” (pg. 4). • Picture from: http://successstoriesinlife.blogspot.com/2012/12/10-common-characteristics-of-happy.html