Unit 8 Lesson 3 Academic Vocabulary

a sailing ship with two or more masts

• schooner
• brigantine
• catamaran
• ketch

a coin worth less than a penny formerly used in Great Britain

• farthing
• pound
• shilling
• guinea

to search thoroughly, causing damage or disorder

• devastate
• pillage
• destroy
• ransack

a stone carving of a strange figure used as decoration on a building, usually a cathedral or Gothic structure

• Sculpture
• Gargoyle
• Statue
• Monument

someone hired to wait on the passengers and crew of a ship

• cabin boy

• chef
• captain
• waiter

to follow right after another event

• Immediately
• Occasionally
• ensue

• Eventually

a length of about six feet used to measure water depth

• inch
• fathom
• mile
• yardstick

about to occur

• impending
• imminent
• forthcoming
• delayed

a rounded hill or mound

• moundlet
• hummock

• plateau
• knoll

to flee or run away

• evade
• depart
• scarper

• escape