Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a brilliant story. Difficult vocabulary words, however, can sometimes interrupt the flow of the story so much that you loose track of the exciting plot, or it becomes slow.
It’s for this reason that I have listed Treasure Island’s vocabulary words by chapter, so that you can browse the word list before you read the story and avoid those repeated stops.
There is also an alphabetical list of words from Treasure Island here
The Word List
(In approximate order of appearance)
Chapter 1
particulars
bearings
sabre wikipedia
lodging
livid appearance words.
tottering
rapped
connoisseur
lingering
cove
sittyated
grog dictionary.com
the more the pity collins dictionary
berth
mought
threshold
sailed before the mast wiktionary
mate wikipedia
obeyed
inquired
residence
parlour
seafaring
desirous
personage
haunted
scarcely
diabolical
abominable
fancies
overriding
passion
reeled
cease
tyrannized
bade
exhausted
rebuff
hawker
hamlet = very small village
coltish
bleared appearance words.
rheumatics
villainous
oath
ruffian
scoundrel
upon my honour google dictionary
assizes wikipedia
knuckled under
magistrate
incivility
effectual
routed
suffice
squire
held his peace = remained silent about something
Chapter 2
occurred
hoar-frost
cutlass wikipedia
indignation
against
tallowy appearance words.
wanting
leer
fawning
sneering
sich
fronted
talons
mutilated appearance words.
retreat
shipmate
retired
gattling
swinging
former
fugitive
chine
intercepted
bewildered
reeled
fouled
scuffle
trebly = times three, i.e. very, extremely.
sinewy appearance words.
executed
lancet
headforemost
buccaneer
hoist
Chapter 3
noggin – A small mug, cup or ladle. A measure equivalent to a gill.
swabs – SWAB. (1) To splash over. (2) A rough awkward fellow. – SWABBER. (1) A sweeper of a vessel. Also, a kind of broom for sweeping out a boat or ship. [ref here]
pitch
yellow jack = archaic term for yellow fever.
meat
hulk
lee
fidges
horrors
cain
offended
lubbers Dictionary.com
reef
daddle
thus
uttered
contrasted
nohow
pipe
all hands
sich
first mate
peach
summons
weather-eye
swoon
mortal
repent
confessions
make an end of me
mourning
hunched
deformed
vise
withdraw
wrench
cowed
sober
accuracy
nimbleness
apoplexy
Chapter 4
inclined
booty
detestable
resolved upon
forth
hamlet
whither
hearken
inmates
smugglers
lugger
emboldener
lest
venture
gully landscape features
compass
tinder
despair
repugnance
tar
miscellany
quadrant
canikin
brace
Chapter 5
afire
aloft
alow
ambushes
assault
broom
budge
circumstance
coach
command
comrades
corns
cutter
declared
deplore
dingle
dismount
dispatch
formidable
frenzy
glim
groping
hailed
hang a leg
irresolute
issued
lumber
miscreant
nohow
overhauled
pluck
preservation
reiterated
report
revenue
shirking
skulk
skulking
sponging
spurned
squalling
supervisor
under way
vain
weevil wikipedia
whence
wrest
Chapter 6
ambiguity
anchorage
appended
as like as not
atrocious
bail
bays
bloodthirsty
bluff
by way of
cache
carcasses
complimented
condescending
confoundedly
crag
dismissed
exclamatory
fathoms
harbours
hot-headed
hummock
inlets
land-locked
latitude
longitude
miscreant
motioned
perceive
poll
prodigiously
propose
rank
rascal
rumpuncheon a figure of speech only, in the context, but there is puncheon rum
scoundrel
soundings
stirrup
sup
trump
undertaking
unintelligible
virtue
Chapter 7
fancy
acre
spyglass
prospects
savages
occurred
schooner wikipedia
trifle
prejudiced
absurdly
transparent
calumnies
riggers
score
natives
odious
deuce
indomitable
frigate wikipedia
tarpaulins
capstan capstan on Wikipedia
consort
postscript
unearthed
boatswain
man-o-war wikipedia
colour
bachelors
roving
glee
despised
lament
afoot
cocked wikipedia
superintend
thither
ringlets
figureheads wikipedia
swaggering
archbishops
capital
Chapter 8
dexterity
according
coppers
pursuit
relinquishing
mahogany book words: colour words
quid
sheepishly
dead-eye dictionary.com
confidential
jawing
keel-hauling wikipaedia
by the powers
hand over hand
bow street runner wikipedia
old bailey wikipedia
gone bail
innocence
scolded
deadlights dictionary.com
broached
mariner
davy
rated
peal
sea-calf
footy
messmates
cockerel hat
obliged
mirth
quays
companion COMPANION, a sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or stair-case of the master’s cabin in a merchant-Ship. from this dictionary
tonnage
anecdote
cargo
nautical
quart
entirely
bear him out
Chapter 9
sterns
keel
thick
axing
shipshape
seaworthy
offence
cruise
inquired
clever
craft
squire
slight
garrison
fore
stern
deuce
schooner
overhauled
astern
contrary
intolerable
humbug
conduct
downright
superintending
galley
forecastle
sparred
hold
companion COMPANION, a sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or stair-case of the master’s cabin in a merchant-Ship.
round-house
swivel
amidships
a long brass nine The Long Nine
Chapter 10
stowed
bustle
boatswain
capstan-bars
stave
barbecue
sober
passably
anchor
short up
bows
draw
prosperous
snatch
slumber
outright
head sea
overboard
irons
a watch
coxswain
wily
at a pinch
confidant
lanyard
bulkhead
yielding
ashore
rigged
grapple
unweariedly
burnished
yarn
predicting
rapidity
Madagascar
Malabar
Surinam
Providence
Portobello
wrecked plate ships
viceroy
goa
powder
pitch Wikipedia
forelock
mucked
innocent
lay to that
make no bones
despised
owned = admitted
brisk
trifle
grog
duff – Wictionary A stiff flour pudding, often with dried fruit, boiled in a cloth bag or steamed.
broached
perished
treachery
trades
morrow
abeam
ssw
bowsprit
slow
aloft
sundown
occurred
luff
Chapter 11
quarter-master
broadside
deadlights
ampytated
amuck
by the powers
swinging
gentlemen of fortune
fling
earnest
dainty
derisively
when a mate brings a slip on his cable
corruption
hands
bumboat
turned his quid and spat
blunt
p’int
nohow
chapling
athwart
maroons
gauge
bilge
pannikin
jine
mizzen-top
Chapter 12
careen
haul your wind
avowed
duplicity
durst
subsided
agitated
declared
forelock
prodigious
lay to
Chapter 13
becalmed
tint
configuration
pedestal
scuppers under
booms
manufactory
backstay
qualm
warped
haven
steersmen
conned
man in the chains
ebb
scour
amphitheatre
foliage
stockade
mutiny
civility
conceal
discontent
by the run
pikes
smother
tiff
gigs
squalling
disaffected
consort
thicket
Chapter 14
bulrushes
outlandish
undulating
contorted
quaint
craggy
vividly
brutes
fowls
hither
thither
fen
hearkening
earnestly
desperadoes
ambush
aperture
dell
sward
whit
dooty
defies
uncouth
agile
extricate
hails
frenzy
wring
fiends
mutineers
bearings
Chapter 15
rapidity
instinctively
lurking
nondescript
vain
contend
adversary
supplication
incongruous
gaskin
accoutrement
agone
pious
catechism
chuck-farthen
predicked
Providence
piety
liberal
clove hitch
predicament
inspiration
ally
livery
shrewdness
mastheaded
standing off and on
cutwater
beat up for more
messmates
musket
cemetery
doo
chapling
short-handed
volley
Chapter 16
dysentery
anchorage
Lillibulero
knoll
loopholed
musketry
paling
besiegers
regiment
Fontenoy
The Duke of Cumberland The Duke of Cumberland – I don’t know whether the Duke mentioned in the story was the same one, but would have been the right century.
jolly-boat
nigh-hand
stern-port
powder tins
kegs
hailed
taken aback
block house
palisade
bestowed
painter
apiece
fathoms
halloaing
Chapter 17
gallipot
gunwale
trim the boat
strait
leeward
steerage
broadside
stern
contrived
slewed
carpet bowls
disclosed
reparation
assailants
bandoleer
valet
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
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