_________ to deliberately sink or attempt to sink a ship or boat.

Protuberant means thrusting out from a surrounding or adjacent surface often as a roundness or precedence

Protocol means dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary.

Prosaic means stingy, relating to great poverty.

Meager means lacking in quality or quantity.

Mawkish means excessively and objectionably sentimental; having a mildly sickening flavor.

not easily governed, manipulated, relieved, or cured.

tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived.

an external appearance, cover, mask

move out of an unsafe location into safety.

to eat up greedily

________ means mercy; lenience.

_____ means secret; marked by or conducted with secrecy.

________ a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; throwback.

___________ a place of retreat or security.

________ stingy, relating to great poverty.