| A | B |
|---|
| Pip | narrator of story, 7-year-old boy |
| Mrs.Joe | Pip's older sister |
| Joe | blacksmith married to Pip's sister |
| Hulks | prison ship convict escaped from |
| wittles | convict's word for food |
| Mr. Wopsle | the church clerk |
| Mr. Hubble | the town's wheelwright |
| wheelright | person who builds and repairs wagon wheels |
| Mr. Pumblechook | Joe's uncle and a seed merchant |
| pigs | subject of conversation at dinner table that turned into a Sunday sermon or moral lecture |
| guilt | emotion Pip wrestles with after giving the convict the file and food |
| state parlour | a formal place only open at Christmas time |
| flounce | wide ornamental ruffle |
| corn-chandler | a corn merchant |
| execrating | cursing |
| chaise-cart | a lightweight carriage with 2 or 4 wheels |
| gibbet | similiar to a gallows, bodies are exposed for public scorn |
| ague | a chill or fit of shivering caused by malaria |
| squally | troubling or disturbing |
| Tar-water | used as a disinfectant or nasty medicine, Mrs.Joe gives this to Joe and Pip as punishment |
