Moby Dick: Vocabulary                  
Nautical terms in alphabetical order (not required, but nice to know):
ballast, boom, bulkhead, bulwarks, cleat, forecastle, gaff, grapnel, halyard, hawser, helm, jib, league, luff, reef, scuttle, spar, tiller, yaw

For each of the words in the following list, you should be able to do the following:
1. Write the literal definition (denotation) of the word.
 Example:
circumambulate--to circle on foot, especially ritualistically.
2. Specifically apply the word to some aspect of the novel itself.
Example:
When Ishmael arrived in New Bedford, he circumambulated the town, observing its places and its people.
3. Apply the word in a nonliteral meaning (connotation).
Example:
Sometimes in a discussion of a sensitive topic, we circumambulate; we step carefully, fearful that we will offend others.
 
Chapters 1-21:   Reading Section 1
cataract
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3.  
monopolize 
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2.  
3.
palsy
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2.  
3.
sufferable
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2.  
3.
tanning
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2.  
3.
skylarking
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2.  
3. 
patrician
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2.  
3.
congregate
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2.  
3.
tarpaulin
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2.  
3.
impregnable
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2.  
3.

trifling
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2.  
3.
immutable
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2.  
3.
incorrigible
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2.  
3.
inordinate
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2.  
3.
apoplexy
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3.
tattered
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3.
enshrine
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2.  
3.

Chapters 22-42:   Reading Section 2
superfluous
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3.
anoint
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3.
ignominy
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3.
circumvention
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3.
vindictive
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3.
deprecate
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3.
leviathan
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2.  
3.

punctilious
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2.  
3.
seaboard
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2.  
3.
progenitor
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2.  
3.
embodiment
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3.
vehement
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3.
smitten
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3.
vicissitude
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2.  
3.

shroud
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3.
hue
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2.  
3.
incarnation
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2.  
3.
apprehension
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2.  
3.
abode
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2.  
3.

Chapters 43-65:   Reading Section 3
celestial
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2.  
3.
squall
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2.  
3.
conflagration
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2.  
3.
insurgent
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2.  
3.
ingenuous
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2.  
3.
spasmodic
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2.  
3.
perdition
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2.  
3.

tumultuous
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2.  
3.
discriminate
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2.  
3.
venerable
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2.  
3.

Chapters 66-86:   Reading Section 4
salvation
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2.  
3.
jurisprudence
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2.  
3.
stigma
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2.  
3.
omnipresent
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2.  
3.
tawny
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2.  
3.
talisman
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2.  
3.

Chapters 87-109:    Reading Section 5
somnambulist
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2.  
3.
Chapters 110-130:    Reading Section 6
     None
Chapters 131-Epilogue:  Reading Section 7
     None

Vocabulary list adapted from list at Vocabulary.com