Treasure Island
Vocabulary

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Poor old fellow, he had not uttered one word of surprise, complaint, fear, or even acquiescence from the very beginning of our troubles till now, when we had laid him down in the log-house to die.

acquiescence = reluctant compliance

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The sums are the scoundrel's share, and where he feared an ambiguity, you see he added something clearer.

ambiguity = unclear — because open to two or more interpretations

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"Come in, Mr. Dance," says he, very stately and condescending.

condescending = treating others as inferior

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asked Silver derisively.

derisively = with treatment as inferior and unworthy of respect

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It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them.

diversity = the condition of variety

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And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.

dolefully = full of sadness

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By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging round to her anchor.

ebb = gradually fall

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Instantly I began to extricate myself and crawl back again, with what speed and silence I could manage, to the more open portion of the wood.

extricate = release from entanglement or difficulty

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His looks were not quite friendly, and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I could not forbear whispering, "So you've changed sides again."

forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting

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That formidable seafaring man with one leg has at last gone clean out of my life;

formidable = intimidating or impressive

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I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession when...

incongruous = lacking in compatibility or appropriateness

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And there was Silver, sitting back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily, prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted, even joining quietly in our laughter—the same bland, polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out.

obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve

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But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.

obstinately = stubbornly unyielding to other's wishes

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And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.

pious = behaving in a highly moral manner

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"Hawkins, I put prodigious faith in you," added the squire.

prodigious = far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree

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came forward with another flag and reverently spread it on the body.

reverently = a lack of respect