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Working Dictionary(Billy Budd, Sailor)
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Analogous
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Chapter 2 – Page 13 – Second Paragraph (of Page 12) – Line
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Sentence: As the Handsome Sailor, Billy Budd’s position aboard the seventy-four was something analogous to that of a rustic beauty transplanted from the provinces and brought into competition with the highborn dames of the court.
Definition: Adjective; Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things compared.
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Bulwarks
Location:
Chapter 28 – Page 123 – First Paragraph
Sentence: An engagement ensued, during which Captain Vere, in the act off putting his ship alongside the enemy with a view of throwing his borders
across her bulwarks, was hit by a musket ball from a porthole of the enemy's main cabin.Definition: Plural Noun;
A wall that is part of a ship's sides and that is above the ship's upper deck.
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Castigation
Location:
Chapter 14 – Page 59 – First
ParagraphSentence: –By the expression meaning that he would like to subject them to disciplinary
castigation over a gun.Definition: Noun;To subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism.
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Chronicle
Location:
Chapter 29 – Page 24 – First Paragraph
Sentence: "News from the Mediterranean," there appeared in a naval chronicle of the time, an authorized weekly publication, an account of the affair.
Definition: Noun; A description of events in the order that they happened.
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Decorum
Location:
Chapter 1 – Page 10 – Paragraph 3
Sentence: To be sure, Billy’s action was a terrible breach of naval decorum
. Definition: Noun; Correct
or proper behavior that shows respect and good manners.
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Eccentricities
Location:
Chapter 9 – Page 41 – Second
ParagraphSentence: While the old man's eccentricities,
sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled by the juniors, Billy, underrated there by, revering him as a sought hero.Definition: Plural Noun;
The quality or state of being eccentric (the quality of being strange or unusual in behavior: an act or habit that is strange or unusual)
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Equivocalness
Location:
Chapter 15 – Page 61 – Second
ParagraphSentence: A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of a good fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and
equivocalness under the circumstances.Definition: Noun;Noun, of uncertain disposition toward a person or
thing.
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Exuberantly
Location:
Chapter
6 – Page 28 – Second Paragraph Sentence: Brimming
over with just family pride in the sailor of their house, he exuberantly exclaimed, “Give ye joy, Ed; give ye joy, my starry Vere!”Definition: Adjective;
Very lively, happy, or energetic: filled with energy and enthusiasm.
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Fastidious
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Chapter 3 – Page 18 – Third ParagraphSentence: "Impartially
forbid
fastidious”.
Definition: Adjective; Very careful about how you do something, liking few things, hard to please, wanting to always be clean, neat, etc.
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Germanicus
Location:
Chapter 24 – Page 110 – First Paragraph
Sentence: And, as elsewhere said, a barbarian Billy radically was—as much so, for all the costume, as his countrymen the British captives, living trophies, made to march in the Roman triumph of Germanicus
.Definition: Noun;Germanicus
Julius Caesar, commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire.
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Gibraltar
Location:
Chapter 28 – Page 123 – First Paragraph
Sentence: Under him the enemy was finally captured, and then I'll much crippled was by rare good fortune successfully taken into
Gibraltar, and English port not very distant from the scene of the fight.Definition: Geographical Name
Town & port on Rock of Gibraltar; a British colony area 2.5square miles (6.5 square kilometers), pop
28,200.
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Hawser
Location:
Chapter 30 – Page 127 – In The Poem – Fifth Line From Bottom
Sentence: A hatchet to my
hawser ?Definition: Noun;
A very thick rope or cable for towing or tying up a ship.
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Hence
Location: Chapter 26 – Page 26 – First Paragraph
Sentence:
Hence the absence of that is no more attributable to will power, as you call it, then to horsepower—begging your pardon.“
Definition: Adverb; For this
reason, later than the present time.
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Irreconcilable
Location:
Chapter 12 – Page 50 – Third Paragraph (Continued to page 51) – First Line
Sentence: Now envy that antipathy, passions irreconcilable
in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.Definition: Adjective;So
different that agreement is not possible.
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Juxtaposition
Location:
Chapter 11 – Page 46 – Second
ParagraphSentence: Now they're can exist no irritating juxtaposition of this dissimilar personalities comparable to that which is possible aboard a great warship fully manned and at sea.
Definition: Noun; The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side; also: the state of being so placed.
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Lieu
Location: Chapter 24 – Page 108 – From Paragraph 2 (On Page 107) – Line 11
Sentence:
In effect he is already in his shroud, or the garments that shall serve him in lieu of one
.Definition: Noun; In the place
of, instead of.
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Luminous
Location:
Chapter 25 – Page 113 – First Paragraph
Sentence: The night was so luminous on the spar deck, but otherwise on the cavernous ones below, levels so like the tiered galleries in a coal mine—the
luminous night passed away.Definition:
Adjective; Filled with light: brightly lit.
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Magnanimity
Location:
Chapter 15 – Page 62 – First
ParagraphSentence: 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 saver over much of the dirty work of a telltale.Definition: Noun;
Loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity.
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Noncombatant
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Chapter 20 – Page 100 – Second Paragraph
Sentence: Say a writer and few know, "Forty years after a battle it is easy for noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought.
Definition: Noun; A
person (such as a military chaplain or doctor) who is in the army, navy, etc., but does not fight.
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Oblivion
Location:
Chapter 22 – Page 103 – First Paragraph (From page 102) – Tenth Line From Bottom
Sentence: There is privacy at the time, inviolable to the survivor; and holy
oblivion, the sequel to each diviner magnanimity, providentially covers all at last. Definition:
Noun; The state of being destroyed.
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Ominous
Location: Chapter 27 – Page 119 – First Paragraph
Sentence:
Thrill of the streak of the sea hawk, the silver whistles off the boatswain and his mates pierce that ominous low sound, dissipating; it and yielding to the mechanism of the discipline to the throng
was thinned by one halfDefinition: Adjective;
Suggesting that something bad is going to happen in the future.
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Pedantic
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Chapter 7 – Page 31 – Third Paragraph (of page 30) – Line
1Sentence: Don’t you think there is a queer streak of pedantic
running through him?Definition: Adjective;Narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned.
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Picturesqueness
Location:
Chapter 4 – Page 21 – Second
ParagraphSentence: Nelsons Victory
, seems to afloat there, not alone as the decaying monument of a frame incorruptible, but also poetic reproach, softened by its picturesqueness. Definition: Adjective;
Very pretty or charming, like a painted picture; telling about something in a way that makes it very easy to imagine: causing someone to have a very clear mental picture of something.Example
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Promiscuous
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Chapter 16 – Page 65 – Second
ParagraphSentence: Every sailor, too, is accustomed to obey borders without debating them; his life float is externally ruled for him; he is not brought into the
promiscuous commerce with mankind were unobstructed free agency on equal terms—equal superficially.Definition: Adjective;
Not restricted to one class, sort, or person.
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Phrenologically
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Chapter 8 – Page 33 – Second Paragraph (of page 32) – Line
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: His brow was of the sort phrenologically.Definition: Adjective; The study of the conformation of the skull based on the belief that it is indicative of mental faculties and character.
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Quidnuncs
Location:
Chapter 8 – Page 36 – Second
ParagraphSentence: The verdict of the sea
quidnuncs has been sighted only by way of showing what sort of moral impression the man made upon rude in cultivated natures whose conceptions of human wickedness were necessarily of the narrowest.Definition: Noun;
A person who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip.
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Rechristening
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Chapter 28 – Page 122 – Third Paragraph Sentence: In the general rechristening under the Directory of the Christ originally forming the navy of the French monarchy, the St. Louis line of battle ship was named the Athée ( The Atheist)
Definition: Verb; Given a name to.
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Repugnance
Location:
Chapter
– Page 92 – Second Paragraph
Sentence: But an innate repugnance 2 playing a part at all approaching that was an informer against one's own shipmates—Definition: Noun;
A strong feeling of dislike or disgust.
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Shrewdness
Location:
Chapter 17 – Page 69 – First Paragraph (From Page 68) Line
6Sentence: But something more, or rather something else then mere
shrewdness is perhaps needful for the do understanding of such a character as Billy Budd's.Definition: Noun;Having
or showing an ability to understand things and to make good judgments: mentally sharp or clever
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Sporadic
Location:
Chapter 5 – Page 25 – First
ParagraphSentence: Hence it was not unreasonable to apprehend some return of trouble sporadic
or general.Definition: Adjective;Happening often but not regularly: not constant or
steady.
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Tempestuous
Location:
Chapter 1 – Page 4 – Paragraph 2
Sentence: At the tiller of the boats on the tempestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the groggerires along the towpath.
Definition: Adjective;Full
of strong emotions (such as anger or excitement)
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Unreciprocated
Location:
Chapter 13 – Page 55 – Second Paragraph (From Page 54) – Line 9 From
BottomSentence: And
they can really form no conception of an unreciprocated malice.Definition: Adjective;
Not reciprocated (to have (a feeling) for someone who has the same feeling for you) Usasally dealing with love
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Vehemently
Location:
Chapter 10 – Page 44 – Second
ParagraphSentence: Nor was the impression lessened when the official, impetuously giving him a sharp cut with the rattan,
vehemently exclaimed, "Look where you go!“Definition: Adjective;Showing
strong and often angry feelings: very emotional.
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Wardroom
Location:
Chapter 23 – Page 105 – First Paragraph
Sentence: On either side the quarterdeck the marine guard underarms was drawn up; in Captain Vere, standing in his place surrounded by all the wardroom officers, addressed his men
.Definition: Noun; A room in a military ship where officers sleep and
eat.
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Yardarm
Location:
Chapter 21 – Page 101 – Second Paragraph
Sentence: In brief, Billy Budd was formally convicted and sentenced to be hung at the yardarm in the early morning watch, it being now night
.Definition: Noun; Either
end of the yard of a square-rigged ship.
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