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Book Summary For Moby Dick

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for Moby Dick is arranged in order of appearance in groups of 25 chapters
(*** Note an additional nautical vocabulary word list or terms for Moby Dick is added after chapters 126-135)

  • Chapters 1-25:
    circumambulate, cataract, fowl, prevalent, forecastle, monopolize, palsy, sufferable, tanning, skylarking, patrician, congregate, tarpaulin, impregnable, trifling, wriggle, immutable, incorrigible, inordinate, apoplexy, tattered, enshrine, superfluous, anoint
  • Chapters 26-50:
    peril, ignominy, circumvention, vindictive, willfulness, deprecate, hammock, omen, leviathan, punctilious, seaboard, sullen, progenitor, embodiment, vehement, condescension, demoniac, obstruct, smitten, vicissitude, inference, shroud, hue, incarnation, dominion, apprehension, desolate, abode, loiter, cipher, transient, substantiate, surmise, gunwale
  • Chapters 51-75:
    celestial, squall, gout, conflagration, insurgent, carrion, embellishment, wretched, ingenuous, concentric, undulate, spasmodic, skittish, yoke, keen, vessel, perdition, epidemic, warrant, denunciation, tumultuous, discriminate, hypochondriac, venerable, speculative
  • Chapters 76-100:
    prominence, impel, spermaceti, suspend, embalm, blemish, citadel, indomitable, deride, protuberance, encumbrance, griffin, contemptible, fathom, dexterous, archipelago, inexhaustible, substance, ballast, commotion, reminiscence, salvation, outrageous, jurisprudence, plague, carcass, cunning, ambergris, stigma, tambourine, omnipresent, gaff, tawny, talisman
  • Chapters 101-125:
    eddy, fluke, attestion, harpoon, stout, hoist, somnambulist, ruddy, banter, remorse, impede, skewer, taper, fitful, stagger, bowsprit, confound, congenial, omniscient
  • Chapters 126-135:
    scamp, heathen, malicious, leeward, allude, transfix, hover, forebode, cankerous, breach, incessant, intricacy, mishap, doubloon
  • ***A Nautical vocabulary word list or terms for Moby Dick:
    ballast, boom, bulkhead, bulwarks, cleat, gaff, grapnel, halyard, hawser, helm, jib, league, luff, reef, scuttle, spar, tiller, yaw

    Thank you, Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for Moby Dick by Herman Melville.