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Wordly Wise 5, Ch. 4
A Difficult Journey
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accurate | 1. able to give a correct reading or measurement 2. without mistakes or errors in facts |
| accuracy | correctness, exactness |
| approximate | not exact, but close enough to be reasonably correct |
| course | 1. the path over which something moves 2. a way of acting or behaving 3. a subject or set of subjects to be studied |
| depart | to leave; to go away from a place |
| departure | the act of leaving |
| despair | v. to lose hope n. a total lack of hope |
| destination | the place to which something or someone is going |
| deteriorate | to make or become worse |
| gale | 1. a very strong wind 2. a loud outburst |
| horizon | the apparent line in the distance where the sky meets the sea or land |
| horizontal | going straight across from side to side |
| jubilation | a feeling or expression of great joy |
| jubilant | very happy |
| navigate | to calculate or direct the movement of a ship or aircraft |
| navigation | the science or practice of directing the movement of a ship of aircraft |
| nostalgia | a longing for a certain time in the past |
| nostalgic | having feelings of longing for a certain time in the past |
| revive | 1. to make or become strong again 2. to bring back into use or fashion |
| sever | 1. to break off 2. to cut in two |
| voyage | n. a long journey by sea or in space v. to make a journey by sea or in space |