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A vocabulary word list for Treasure Island is arranged in order of appearance:
Treasure Island: Chapters 1-3:
schooner, marooned, buccaneers, cove, bearings, sabre, handbarrow, tottering, capstan bars, connoisseur, berth, desirous, four-penny, Dry Tortugas, Spanish Main, tyrannizes, hawker, rheumatics, ruffian, assizes, tallowy, leer, cutlass, sheath, talons, fugitive, chine, gallows, prophetic, lancet, noggin, pitch, Yellow Jack, lee shore, guinea, lubber, swoonlike, scowling, cowed, apoplexy
Chapters 4-6:
booty, hamlet, lugger, venture, miscellany, quadrant, cannikin, brace, oilcloth, rogues, farthing, bush of, broom, formidable, irresolute, miscreant, bluff, condescending, prodigiously, ambiguity, cache
Chapters 7-12:
brooded, calumnies, odious, tarpaulins, heath, dale, thither, quays, dexterity, relinquishing, quid, anecdote, garrison, stave, coxswain, lanyard, viceroy, duff, pannikin, conical, careen, forelock
Chapters 13-18:
becalmed, scuppers, amphitheatre, extricate, apparition, incongruous, tarry gaskin, accoutrement, bandoleer, palisade, acquiescence, consort
Chapters 20-26:
morass, cavalier, puncheon, coracle, hawser, callous, phosphorescent, crags, contrariety, promontory, shoal, subaltern, estuary, feints
Chapters 27-29:
shrouds, jibs, canted, halyards, beam-ends, tremulous, truculently, kelson, staunch, caulker, emissary, hornpipe, insolence, vehemence, ruination, trifle, gibbet
Chapters 30-32:
sentinel, insubordinate, stealthy, rations, apprehensions, pestiferous, slough, rudiments, spars, preponderance, volubility, forfeit, squalls, helm, perjury, concession, sentries, campaign, scheme, feasible, cessions, burthened, subsist, gugs, eminence, baccy, precipices, volubly, tack, conspicuous, countenance, excavation, probation
Chapters 33-34:
teetotum, escapade, cordial, prosecute, derelictions, quadrilateral, obsequious, diversity, ingratiate, supplication, gibbet, wilwarks, sojourn, connived, smit
Thank you, Joan Bigelow who teaches at Avon Middle School in Avon, Connecticut, for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com of a vocabulary word list for Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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