Dracula: Webster's Thesaurus Edition

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Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
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Bram Stoker
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Dracula
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Bram Stoker
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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1......................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2....................................................................................................................19
CHAPTER 3....................................................................................................................33
CHAPTER 4....................................................................................................................47
CHAPTER 5....................................................................................................................63
CHAPTER 6....................................................................................................................75
CHAPTER 7....................................................................................................................91
CHAPTER 8..................................................................................................................107
CHAPTER 9..................................................................................................................125
CHAPTER 10.................................................................................................................143
CHAPTER 11.................................................................................................................159
CHAPTER 12.................................................................................................................173
CHAPTER 13.................................................................................................................193
CHAPTER 14.................................................................................................................211
CHAPTER 15.................................................................................................................229
CHAPTER 16.................................................................................................................245
CHAPTER 17.................................................................................................................257
CHAPTER 18.................................................................................................................273
CHAPTER 19.................................................................................................................291
CHAPTER 20.................................................................................................................305
CHAPTER 21.................................................................................................................323
CHAPTER 22.................................................................................................................339
CHAPTER 23.................................................................................................................353
CHAPTER 24.................................................................................................................369
CHAPTER 25.................................................................................................................385
CHAPTER 26.................................................................................................................401
CHAPTER 27.................................................................................................................421
NOTE............................................................................................................................441
GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................443

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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR
Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on
standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently
assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker was edited for studentswho are actively building their
vocabulariesin anticipation of taking PSAT , SAT , AP (Advanced Placement ), GRE ,
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LSAT , GMAT or similar examinations.
Webster’s editionof this classic is organized to expose the readerto a maximum number of
synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in
other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic
words and expressions are givenlower priority inthe notes compared to words which are “difficult,
and often encountered” in examinations. Ratherthan supplya single synonym, manyare provided
for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language,
and avoid using the notes as apure crutch. Having the readerdeciphera word’s meaning within
context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each pagecovers words not
already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it
has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the
book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary.
Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-online-
dictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected]
The Editor
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CHAPTER 1
JONATHAN HARKER’SJOURNAL
3 MAY.BISTRITZ .—Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna
early next morning;should havearrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place,from the glimpsewhich I got of it from the
trainand the little I could walk through the streets.I feared to go very farfrom
the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as
possible.%
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the
East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is hereof
noblewidthand depth, took usamongthe traditions of Turkish rule.
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfallto Klausenburgh. Here I
stopped for the nightat the HotelRoyale. I hadfor dinner, or rather supper, a
chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
(Mem. getrecipefor Mina.) I asked thewaiter, and hesaid itwas call ed “paprika
hendl,” and that, as it was a national dish, I shouldbe able to get it anywhere
along the Carpathians.
I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don’t know
how I shouldbe able to get on without it.
Thesaurus
glimpse: (n, v) look, peek; (v) blink, spice, season, salt. ANTONYMS: (adj) quenched,
see, notice, spy,spot, espy; (n) coup recipe: (n) receipt, method, satisfied, disinterested, wet.
d'oeil, view, peep. ANTONYMS: (n) prescription, formula, secret, waiter: (n) lackey, valet, waitress,
scrutiny, observation, perusal; (v) direction, instruction, nostrum, attendant, salver, lurcher,
scrutinize, survey,Miss, study. means, answer,resource. counterman, lurker, servant, tray,
nightfall: (n) dusk, evening, twilight, smattering: (n) touch, sciolism, hint, steward.
sunset, gloaming, evenfall, dark, tinge, smatter, bit, dash, discernment, width: (n) extent, wideness, size,
eventide, sundown, darkness, fall. suggestion, small indefinite quantity, latitude, length, broadness, distance,
ANTONYMS: (n) daybreak, sunrise. sprinkle. dimension, thickness, amplitude,
pepper: (n) cayenne, capsicum, thirsty: (adj) eager,arid, parched, avid, measurement. ANTONYMS: (n)
paprika, pimento, peppercorn, black keen, athirst, greedy, absorbent, thinness, height, tallness,
pepper; (v) bombard, sprinkle; (adj) ambitious; (v) craving, hungry. narrowness.
4 Dracula
Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the
British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library
regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the
country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a nobleman
of that country.%
I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on
the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst
of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of
Europe.
I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the
Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our
own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by
Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes,
as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.
In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons
in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the
Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going
among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may
be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they
found the Huns settled in it.
I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the
horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative
whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all
about them.)
I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had all
sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my window,
which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika,
for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was still thirsty. Towards
morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I
guess I must have been sleeping soundly then.
Thesaurus
carafe: (n) bottle, jug, container, flask, lord, peer, marquis, nobility, tire, weary, stagnate, drain, kill.
flagon, pitcher, container for liquid, grandee, baron, duke, armiger, soundly: (adv) sound, fully, solidly,
thermos, water jug, hip flask. burgrave. thoroughly, deeply, substantially,
descended: (v) extraught. paprika: (n) capsicum, capsicum validly, strongly, stably, fastly, safely.
foreknowledge: (n) precognition, annuum grossum, bell pepper, ANTONYMS: (adv) harmfully,
prevision, clairvoyance, vision, seasoning, seasoner, pepper, halfheartedly, fitfully,
prescience, ESP, forecast, sign, flavourer, sweet pepper, pimiento, unconvincingly.
prenotion; (v) foreknow, presage. pimento, sweet pepper plant. travels: (n) actions, expedition.
horseshoe: (n) bow, arc, arch, carve, refresh: (v) air, enliven, invigorate, whirlpool: (n, v) vortex, whirl, swirl,
crescent, arcade, loop, curve, brake update, comfort, regenerate, gurge; (n) maelstrom, verticity, whir;
shoe, lunule, vault. rejuvenate, cool, renew, restore; (adj) (v) undercurrent, indraught, reflux,
nobleman: (n) patrician, aristocrat, refreshing. ANTONYMS: (v) exhaust, purl.
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I had for breakfast more paprika, andasort of porridge of maize flour which
they said was “mamaliga”,andegg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very
excellent dish, which they call“impletata”.(Mem.,getrecipefor this also.)
I had to hurry breakfast,for the train started alittle beforeeight, or rather it
ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the
carriage for more than an hour before we beganto move.%
It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the
trains. Whatought they to be in China?
All daylong we seemedto dawdle through acountrywhich was fullof
beauty of every kind. Sometimes we sawlittle towns or castles on the top of
steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams
which seemed from the wide stony margin on eachside of them to be subject to
great floods.It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside
edge ofa river clear.
At every station there were groups ofpeople, sometimes crowds, and in all
sorts of attire. Some of them were justlike the peasants at homeor those I saw
coming throughFranceand Germany, with short jackets,and round hats, and
home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque.
The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were
very clumsyabout the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or
other, and most of them had big beltswith a lot of strips of something fluttering
from them like the dressesin a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under
them.
The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian
than the rest, with their big cow-boyhats, great baggy dirty-white trousers,
white linen shirts,and enormous heavy leather belts, nearlya foot wide, all
studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked
into them, and had long black hair and heavy blackmoustaches. They are very
picturesque,but do not look prepossessing. On the stage they would be set
Thesaurus
attire: (n, v) array, garb, apparel, wear; hesitate, hang about, idler, loiter. lovely, captivating,charming, nice,
(n) costume, garment, outfit, clothes; ANTONYMS: (v) hurry, rush,speed, graceful, winsome;(v) inviting.
(v) enrobe, clothe, dressup. hasten, lead. studded: (adj) muricated, bristling,
ANTONYMS: (v) disrobe,bare, strip, fluttering: (adj) flying, palpitating, peopled, crowded, manifold,
unclothe; (n) nakedness. flittering, flaring, aflare, waving; (n) multinominal, multiple, multiplied,
barbarian: (n) Goth, vandal, brute; flutter, flapping, flicker, flitting; (adv) multitudinous, populous; (v)
(adj) heathen, barbaric, barbarous, flutteringly. freckled.
uncivilized, uncultured, wild, rude, forcemeat: (n, v) farce; (n) stuffing, unpunctual: (adj) tardy, slow,
foreign. ANTONYMS: (adj) cultured, dressing, castigation, farcing, farce irregular,belated, uncertain, serotine,
refined; (n) native,citizen. comedy, condiment, dress. postliminious, posthumous,
dawdle: (v) linger, lag, delay, put off, prepossessing: (adj) engaging, behindhand, backward, untimely.
amble, procrastinate, saunter, winning, handsome, appealing, ANTONYM: (adj) punctual.