Vocabulary Chapters 4-6
Vocabulary Chapters 7-9
Pirates, Parrots, & Plots, Oh My!
Characters & Quotes
Characters & Quotes Continued
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A person with no morals.
What is a Miscreant (29)?
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detestable
What is Odious (42)?
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Jim Hawkins hears this while in the apple barrel.
What is Long John Silver's plot to mutiny against, and kill Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, Captain Smollett and Jim Hawkins.
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Said,“‘It was the crew that troubled me. I wished a round score of men—in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French—and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that I required. I was standing on the dock, when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him. I found he was an old sailor, kept a public-house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again.’” (42)
Who was Squire Trelawney?
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Said, "I don't know about treasure," he said, "but I'll stake my wig there's fever here."
Who is Dr. Livesey?
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To treat another as if he/she/it were beneath one’s dignity; to patronize or disrespect.
What is Condescending (32)?
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awful
What is Abominable (43)?
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Silver introduces Jim to Cap’n Flint, who has traveled with pirates her whole life—and has the vocabulary to prove it. She repeats the phrase "Pieces of eight."
What/Who is Long John Silver's two- hundred-year old parrot?
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Said, “‘I’ll have no favourites on my ship.’” (56)
Who is Captain Smollett?
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Said, "you can’t touch pitch and not be mucked, lad.’” (59)
Who is Long John Silver?
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shockingly brutal or cruel; horrible
What is Atrocious (32)?
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punishment by tying a rope around the offender, throwing him overboard, and dragging him under the ship so as to be scraped against sharp barnacles covering the keel, or bottom of the ship
What is Keel-hauling (48)?
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Decides that the only way to handle the situation is to keep a positive outlook and to put “prodigious faith” (71) in Jim’s ability to intermediate between the pirates and themselves.
What is, the decision that Captain Smollett makes upon hearing the news of Long John Silver's plot?
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Said, “There was some that was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me. Feared he was, and proud.” (63)
Who is Long John Silver?
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Said, "If I die like a dog I'll die in my dooty. You've killed Alan, have you? Kill me, too, if you can. But I defies you.""
Who is Tom?
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confusion; lack of clarity
What is Ambiguity (35)?
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a tiny detail
What is Trifle (42)?
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6 men to 19
What is the number of honest men?
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Said, “Everything else was unchanged, the sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of the mountain, and I could scarce persuade myself that murder had been actually done and a human life cruelly cut short a moment since before my eyes.” (83)
Who is Jim Hawkins?
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Said, "If I ever get aboard again, you shall have cheese by the stone."
Who is Jim Hawkins?
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rejected
What is Spurned (29)?
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impossible to stop
What is Indomitable (43)?
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The two honest men that were slain by Long John Silver and his mutineers when they went ashore.
Who are Tom and Alan?
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Said, "I haven’t spoke with a Christian these three years.’” (86)
Who is Ben Gunn?
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Said, "Mate, it's because I thinks gold dust of you-gold dust, and you may lay to that!"
Who is Long John Silver?
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