Vocabulary

Bow: front of the ship
 * Prologue:**

Cascade: falling water

Schooner: a boat

Plummet: to fall

Trough: the bottom of a wave

Righted: Straightened out

Thirty-footer- 30 feet high

Forked: Split

Silhouetted: outlined

Mast: A pole that holds up the sails

Pandemonium: Chaos

Halyard: A rope that raises & lowers the sail

Gale: Strong wind


 * Chapter 1:**

Sentenced: punished

Queasy: Feel sick to your stomach

Quarters: Room

Gavel: judge's mallet

Porthole: window on a boat

Felony: crime

Vandalism: Crime


 * Chapter 2:**

Learjet: private plane
 * Chapter 3:**

Humidity: water in the air

Tarmac: airplane runway

Terminated: ended

Shoplifting: Stealing or robbing