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  • A widespread desease that is deadly.
    Plague
  • To throw a weight into the water to stop the movement of a boat.
    Anchor
  • To look for.
    Seek
  • A heavy amount of snow, rain, hail or thunder and lightning.
    Storm
  • The staff on a ship.
    Crew
  • A person or a company engaged in the business of selling or traiding goods.
    Merchant
  • A new colony, or a place newly colonized.
    Settlement
  • Bad treatment based on race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
    Persecution
  • Trust or confidence, a belief in religion or God.
    Faith
  • Fom on board into the water.
    Overboard
  • To carry off a person by force.
    Kidnap
  • A group of English Puritans, persecuted in their own country, who emigrated to America.
    Pilgrims
  • The gathering of a crop.
    Harvest
  • A rough, uninhabited or neglected region.
    Wilderness
  • A large, oblong piece of wood or other material, used especially for construction.
    Beam
  • To disappear quickly
    Vanish
  • Any cultural product, growing or collected, such as corn, wheat, cotton, fruit, honey.
    Crop
  • Monetary gain from business transactions.
    Profit
  • A protected area in the water where boats anchor.
    Harbor
  • To migrate to and set up a community in; colonize.
    Settle
  • To begin a voyage on the water.
    Set sail.
  • A machine used to raise heavy things a short distance, operated by turning a screwlike shaft.
    Jackscrew
  • A person or a place who is welcoming, friendly and accommodating to guests.
    Hospitable.