Collection 5: The Fish

As you read Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 5: To Build a Fire, The Jungle, Food Product Design, The Lowest Animal, Genesis of the Tenement, The Story of an Hour, The Fish
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  1. tremendous
    extraordinarily large in extent or amount or power
  2. venerable
    impressive by reason of age
  3. homely
    lacking in physical beauty or proportion
  4. infest
    occupy in large numbers or live on a host
  5. coarse
    rough to the touch
  6. dramatic
    sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
  7. entrails
    internal organs collectively
  8. tarnish
    make or become dirty or dull, as by exposure to air
  9. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  10. mechanism
    an object resembling a machine in structure or function
  11. grim
    harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
  12. waver
    move back and forth very rapidly
  13. bilge
    water accumulated in the lowest part of a ship
  14. thwart
    a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat
  15. gunnel
    wale at the top of the side of boat
Created on Thu Jul 17 16:39:12 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:22:00 EDT 2014)

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