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A vocabulary word list for Moby Dick is arranged in order of appearance in groups of 25 chapters
(*** Note an additional nautical vocabulary word list or terms for Moby Dick is added after chapters 126-135) Chapters 1-25:
circumambulate, cataract, fowl, prevalent, forecastle, monopolize, palsy, sufferable, tanning, skylarking, patrician, congregate, tarpaulin, impregnable, trifling, wriggle, immutable, incorrigible, inordinate, apoplexy, tattered, enshrine, superfluous, anoint
Chapters 26-50:
peril, ignominy, circumvention, vindictive, willfulness, deprecate, hammock, omen, leviathan, punctilious, seaboard, sullen, progenitor, embodiment, vehement, condescension, demoniac, obstruct, smitten, vicissitude, inference, shroud, hue, incarnation, dominion, apprehension, desolate, abode, loiter, cipher, transient, substantiate, surmise, gunwale
Chapters 51-75:
celestial, squall, gout, conflagration, insurgent, carrion, embellishment, wretched, ingenuous, concentric, undulate, spasmodic, skittish, yoke, keen, vessel, perdition, epidemic, warrant, denunciation, tumultuous, discriminate, hypochondriac, venerable, speculative
Chapters 76-100:
prominence, impel, spermaceti, suspend, embalm, blemish, citadel, indomitable, deride, protuberance, encumbrance, griffin, contemptible, fathom, dexterous, archipelago, inexhaustible, substance, ballast, commotion, reminiscence, salvation, outrageous, jurisprudence, plague, carcass, cunning, ambergris, stigma, tambourine, omnipresent, gaff, tawny, talisman
Chapters 101-125:
eddy, fluke, attestion, harpoon, stout, hoist, somnambulist, ruddy, banter, remorse, impede, skewer, taper, fitful, stagger, bowsprit, confound, congenial, omniscient
Chapters 126-135:
scamp, heathen, malicious, leeward, allude, transfix, hover, forebode, cankerous, breach, incessant, intricacy, mishap, doubloon
***A Nautical vocabulary word list or terms for Moby Dick:
ballast, boom, bulkhead, bulwarks, cleat, gaff, grapnel, halyard, hawser, helm, jib, league, luff, reef, scuttle, spar, tiller, yaw
Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
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