Treasure Island Chapter 23

" I was to go down the sandy spit...find the white rock I had observed last evening and ascertain whether it was there or not that Ben Gunn had hidden his boat."

• see
• find out
• agree

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"But, in the meantime, I had taken another notion, and become so obstinately fond of it, that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett himself."

• truly
• passionately
• stubbornly

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash."

• endless
• talkative
• unconcerned

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"He has no pension, Livesey, imagine the abominable age we live in!"

• excited 
• profound
• detestable

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"He carried a crutch which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird."

• sensibility
• agility
• tranquility

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy!"

• left
• ranked
• considered

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

" You wish us to keep this matter dark, and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship...In other words, you fear a mutiny?"

• hurricane
• murder
• rebellion

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"And the coxwain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman, who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.  He was a great confidant of Long John Silver."

• crazy admirer
• close friend
• con artist

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"By a 'gentleman of fortune' they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was the last act of in the corruption of one of the honest hands."

• improvement
• spoiling
• criticism

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I'd have Cap'n Smollett navigate us halfway back again before I struck."

• push
• shake
• guide

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4