| A | B |
|---|
| steerage | inferior accomodations on a ship for those paying the lowest prices |
| bowsprit | a large spar projecting forward from the stem of the ship |
| inexplicable | unable to justify, clarify, or interpret |
| comrades | good friends or colleagues |
| blithely | cheerful; carefree; lighthearded |
| flogged | beaten with a whip or a stick |
| curtsied | lowering the body with bending the knees |
| exaggeration | to overstate; to stretch the truth |
| gruesome | horrible; grisly; ghastly |
| restrain | to hold back; to prevent from doing |
