Ice Story Vocabulary

Ice Story Vocabulary Words

Chapters 1-4

Unrelenting: page 1 --  adjective -- not softening or yielding in determination

Desolate: page 1 --  adjective -- lacking inhabitants and visitors.

Improbable:  page 2 --adjective-- unlikely to occur

Exploits: page 2 -- noun-- deeds notable especially for heroism

Ebbed: page 6 --verb-- passing from a high to a low point

Frenzied: page 8  violently agitated; frantic; wild: a frenzied mob.

Beset:  page 14 d Nautical . to surround (a vessel) by ice, so that control of the helm is lost.

Buffoon:  page 19  a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures,etc.

Chapters 5-8

Salvage:  page 26 the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.

Anguish: page 34 excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.

Embittered:  page 36 to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness: Failure has embittered him

Impending: page 39   about to happen; imminent: their impending marriage.

Peninsula: page 45    an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for anisthmus connecting it with the mainland.

Apprehension: page 47
anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.

Chapters 9-11

Scarcely: page 49 Adverb  barely; hardly; not quite: The light is so dim we can scarcely see.

Presumably: page 51  by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.

Disintegrate: page 52  Verb. Break up into parts, typically as the result of impact or decay.

Jubilantly: page 55   Adjective.    Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.

Compensate: page 59  Verb.  Recompense (someone) for loss, suffering, or injury, typically by the award of a sum of money.

Prevailing: page 62  Verb: Be widespread in a particular area at a particular time; be current: "The prevailing winds were to the  northwest. 

Chapters 12-15

Plummet:   page 76  Verb

Fall or drop straight down at high speed.

Dabble: page 81   Verb -- 1. to play and splash in or as if in water, especially with the hands.   2. to work at anything in an irregular or superficial manner: to dabble in literature.

Optimist: page 85  Noun --   a person who expects the best possible outcome or dwells on the most hopeful aspects of a situation

Fanfare: page 85    Noun

A short ceremonial tune or flourish played on brass instruments. An ostentatious or noisy display.

Chapters 16-end

Loom:  page  107 to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct and enlarged form: The mountainous island loomed on the horizon.

Premonitions: page 113    a forewarning. synonyms: foreboding, portent, omen, sign.