ESL Vocabulary from The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
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| skiff | any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person | |
| gaff | an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish | |
| to haul | to pull or draw with force | |
| sardine | the pilchard, often preserved in oil and used for food | |
| to attain | to reach, achieve, or accomplish | |
| mast | a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc | |
| stern | firm, strict, or uncompromising | |
| charcoal | the carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic substances in the absence of air | |
| timid | lacking in self assurance, courage, or bravery | |
| inferior | lower in station, rank, degree, or grade | |
| oakum | loose fiber obtained by untwisting and picking apart old ropes, used for caulking the seams of ships | |
| to urinate | to pass or discharge urine | |
| cot | a light portable bed, esp. one of canvas on a folding frame | |
| oar | a long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat | |
| phosphorescence | the property of being luminous at temperatures below incandescence, as from slow oxidation in the case of phosphorus or after exposure to light or otehr radiation | |
| thole | a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar | |
| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet | |
| bonito | any mackerel-like fish of the genus | |
| virtue | moral excellence | |
| myriad | a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things | |
| to annul | to make void or null | |
| to trickle | to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream | |
| bight | the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends | |
| tentative | uncertain, experimental, or subject to change on a whim | |
| imperceptible | very slight, gradual, or subtle | |
| taut | tightly drawn | |
| womb | the uterus of the human female and the certain higher mammals that carries offspring | |
| to endure | to hold out against | |
| to precede | to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time | |
| proprietor | the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc |
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