Jovial

Acerbity

Cynosure

Appellation

Pedantic

JocoselyIncongruous

Surmise

Circumambient

Arduous AustereAlacrity

Cumbersome Epithet

Magnanimity Pabulum

Promulgated

Behest

Demarcation

Clandestine

Gainsay

Axiom Clement

Martinet

Ignominious

Poignantly

Mitigated

Denizen

Tangible

Pugnacious

Oblong

Rotund

Regicidal

Ruminate Veracity

Go to PictureRuminate

• Part of Speech: verb• Definition: to meditate or muse; ponder• “‘Why? they will ruminate.’” (pg. 99).• Picture from:

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Go to PictureRotund

• 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).

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Tangible

• 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).

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Pusillanimous

• 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).

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Go to PicturePugnacious

• 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).

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Go to PicturePromulgated

• 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).

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Go to PicturePoignantly

• 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).

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Go to PicturePabulum

• 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).

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Go to PictureOblong

• 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).

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Go to PictureMitigated

• 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).

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Go to PictureMartinet

• 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).

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Go to PictureMagnanimity

• 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).

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Go to PictureIgnominious

• 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).

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Go to PictureGainsay

• 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).

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Go to PictureEpithet

• 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).

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Go to PictureDenizen

• 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.’”

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Go to PictureDemarcation

• 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).

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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).

Clement

• Part of Speech: adjective• Definition: mild or merciful in disposition or

character; lenient; compassionate • “‘Your clement sentence they would account

pusillanimous.’” (pg. 99).

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).

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).

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).

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).

Go to PictureAustere

• 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).

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Go to PictureArduous

• 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).

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Go to PictureAlacrity

• 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).

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Go to PictureAcerbity

• 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:

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Go to PictureJovial

• 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).

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Cynosure

• Part of Speech: noun• Definition: something that strongly attracts attention

by its brilliance, interest, etc.; something serving for guidance or direction

• “Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd—or Baby Budd, as more familiarly, under circumstances hereafter to be given, he at last came to be called—aged twenty-one, foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.” (pg. 5).

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Credence

• Part of Speech: noun• Definition: belief as to the truth of something;

something giving a claim to belief or confidence• “But the less credence was to be given to the gun-

deck talk touching Claggart, seeing that no man holding his office in a man-of-war can ever hope to be popular with the crew.” (pg. 36).

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Appellation

• Part of Speech: noun• Definition: a name, title, or designation• “In the navy he was popularly known by the

appellation ‘Starry Vere.’” (pg. 27).• Picture from: ~made by Adelina Rolea~

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Pedantic

• Part of Speech: adjective• Definition: overly concerned with minute details or

formalisms, especially in teaching• “‘But between you and me now, don’t you think there

is a queer streak of the pedantic running through him?’” (pg. 31).

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Jocosely

• Part of Speech: adverb• Definition: (pertaining to jocose) given to or

characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful• “Some apparent ground there was for this sort of

confidential criticism; since not only did the captain’s discourse never fall into the jocosely familiar, but in illustrating of any point touching the stirring personages and events of the time he would be as apt to cite some historic character or incident of antiquity as he would be to cite from the moderns.” (pg. 31).

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Incongruous

• Part of Speech: adjective• Definition: out of keeping or place; inappropriate;

unbecoming; not harmonious in character; inconsonant; lacking harmony of parts

• “But his general aspect and manner were so suggestive of an education and career incongruous with his naval function that when not actively engaged in it he looked like a man of high quality, social and moral, who for reasons of his own was keeping incog.” (pg. 33).

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Surmise

• Part of Speech: verb• Definition: to think or infer without certain or strong

evidence; conjecture; guess• “And indeed a man of Claggart’s accomplishments,

without prior nautical experience entering the navy at mature life, as he did, and necessarily allotted at the start to the lowest grade in it; a man too who never made allusions to his previous life ashore; these were circumstances which in the dearth of exact knowledge as to his true antecedents opened to the invidious a vague field for unfavorable surmise.” (pg. 34).

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Veracity

• Part of Speech: noun• Definition: habitual observance of truth in speech or

statement; truthfulness; conformity to truth or fact; accuracy

• “The master-at-arms never suspected the veracity of these reports, more especially as to the epithets, for he well knew how secretly unpopular may become a master-at-arms, at least a master-at-arms of those days, zealous in his function, and how the bluejackets shoot at him in private their raillery and wit; the nickname by which he goes among them (Jemmy Legs) implying under the form of merriment their cherished disrespect and dislike.” (pg. 54).

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