The Cay

5. An abrupt jerking, swaying or tipping movement. What happened to Phillip and Timothy’s raft when it hit shore.
6. To move in a violent and convulsive way. Phillip did this when he fell from the raft into the water.
8. sailing vessel having at least two masts. Curacao uses these for transportation.
12. To be constantly worried or anxious. Timothy told Phillip not to do this about an aircraft seeing them.
14. To feel around or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands. Phillip did this so he could find an area to dig a grave for Timothy.
15. To secretly allow something considered wrong or harmful to happen. There was this in Timothy’s voice when Phillip was asking where the cat was.
16. Phillip’s furry friend who jumped onto his and Timothy’s raft.
17. To make something hard to see or invisible. Phillip thought the black smoke did this to his rocks that spelt help.
18. Cutting something. What had happened to Timothy’s back during the crazy storm.
19. To talk in a way that shows too much pride about something you have done. Timothy was doing this about the lobster that he caught.

1. a low continuous humming sound. The aircraft above Phillip and Timothy when they were on their raft made this noise.
2. A period when lights are kept off or are hidden from view to guard against enemy airplane attack in a war. Phillip’s dad had to check these curtains.
3. Collecting water, especially rainfall over a natural drainage area. What Timothy made to catch water when it rained.
4. The determining of a position of a ship, plane or vehicle. This is what the ship Phillip and his mother were on was doing to get to Miami.
7. A violent windy storm. What Phillip and Timothy get caught in.
9. The largest of the Dutch islands just off the coast of Venezuela. This is where Phillip lives.
10. A place where the workers eliminate unwanted elements in different substances. Phillip’s dad works at one in oil
11. In a careful and cautious manner. Phillip felt his arm like this when he got pulled into the hole of which he thought an eel was there.
13. Found on the Atlantic coasts of tropical America they are bunches of purple edible fruit. Phillip uses these to create black smoke for pilots to see.
17. Repeatedly asks someone something. The people on the ship who saved Phillip kept asking him questions that someone yelled to stop doing this to him.