Jane Eyre (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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by  Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
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Charlotte Brontë

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Jane Eyre

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Charlotte Brontë

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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1

PREFACE..........................................................................................................................3

NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION.........................................................................................7

CHAPTER I.......................................................................................................................9

CHAPTER II....................................................................................................................15

CHAPTER III...................................................................................................................23

CHAPTER IV...................................................................................................................33

CHAPTER V....................................................................................................................51

CHAPTER VI...................................................................................................................67

CHAPTER VII..................................................................................................................77

CHAPTER VIII.................................................................................................................87

CHAPTER IX...................................................................................................................97

CHAPTER X..................................................................................................................107

CHAPTER XI.................................................................................................................121

CHAPTER XII................................................................................................................139

CHAPTER XIII...............................................................................................................151

CHAPTER XIV...............................................................................................................165

CHAPTER XV................................................................................................................179

CHAPTER XVI...............................................................................................................193

CHAPTER XVII..............................................................................................................205

CHAPTER XVIII.............................................................................................................229

CHAPTER XIX...............................................................................................................247

CHAPTER XX................................................................................................................261

CHAPTER XXI...............................................................................................................279

CHAPTER XXII..............................................................................................................305

CHAPTER XXIII.............................................................................................................313

CHAPTER XXIV.............................................................................................................325

CHAPTER XXV..............................................................................................................347

CHAPTER XXVI.............................................................................................................361

CHAPTER XXVII............................................................................................................375

CHAPTER XXVIII...........................................................................................................405

CHAPTER XXIX.............................................................................................................425
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CHAPTER XXX..............................................................................................................439

CHAPTER XXXI.............................................................................................................451

CHAPTER XXXII............................................................................................................461

CHAPTER XXXIII...........................................................................................................475

CHAPTER XXXIV..........................................................................................................491

CHAPTER XXXV............................................................................................................517

CHAPTER XXXVI..........................................................................................................529

CHAPTER XXXVII.........................................................................................................541

CHAPTER XXXVIII........................................................................................................565

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................571
Charlotte Bronte 1

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 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë was edited for students who are actively building their
vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®,
LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to 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 given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult,
and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided
for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language,
and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within
context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers 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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1 P S A T ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit
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College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are
registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book,
GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated
with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council
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PREFACE

A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none:
this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and
miscellaneous remark.%
My thanks are due in three quarters.
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few
pretensions.
To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure
aspirant.
To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and
frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author.
The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must
thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are definite: so are certain
generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and high-
minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e., to my
Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you
from my heart.
Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved
me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be

Thesaurus
acknowledgment: (n) admission, cordially: (adv) warmly, genially, (adj, n) bounty; (n) largess,
acknowledgement, acceptance, kindly, sincerely, heartfeltly, munificence, benevolence,
confession, greeting, credit, ardently, friendly, jovially, earnestly, beneficence, generousness, tolerance;
allowance, declaration, agreement, affectionately, harmoniously. (adj) largesse, gift. ANTONYM: (n)
thanks, gratitude. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (adv) disagreeably, illiberality.
rejection, ungratefulness, oversight, frostily. tact: (n) diplomacy, delicacy, finesse,
snub, ignoring, invoice, blame, high-minded: (adj) great, noble, address, discretion, skill,
defiance. generous, lofty, magnanimous, consideration, refinement, grace,
aspirant: (n) applicant, claimant, elevated, exalted, upright, chivalrous, thoughtfulness, tactfulness.
amateur, contender, contestant, magnificent, honest. ANTONYMS: (n) frankness,
postulant, entrant; (adj, n) hopeful; large-hearted: (adj) generous. carelessness, thoughtlessness,
(adj) aspiring, ambitious, wishful. liberality: (n, v) charity, almsgiving; insensitivity, clumsiness.
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overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such
books as “Jane Eyre:” in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears
detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety,
that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious
distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.%
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack
the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee,
is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is
vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded:
appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only
tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-
redeeming creed of Christ. There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good,
and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between
them.
The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been
accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for
sterling worth—to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate
him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base
metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as
it will, it is indebted to him.
Ahab did not like Micaiah, because he never prophesied good concerning
him, but evil; probably he liked the sycophant son of Chenaannah better; yet
might Ahab have escaped a bloody death, had he but stopped his ears to flattery,
and opened them to faithful counsel.
There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate
ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the
son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks
truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless
and as daring. Is the satirist of “Vanity Fair” admired in high places? I cannot
tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his

Thesaurus
assail: (n, v) assault; (v) invade, dissevered: (adj) assuring liberty, at mien: (n, v) deportment, carriage,
bombard, molest, raid, hit, beset, liberty, charming, clear, free, bearing, demeanor; (n) look,
besiege, strike, storm, impugn. communicative. countenance, appearance, guise,
ANTONYMS: (v) withdraw, elate: (adj, v) cheer; (v) exalt, animate, manner, aspect, air.
champion, support, protect. elevate, enrapture, stimulate, raise, rase: (v) erase, raze, efface, expunge,
carping: (adj, v) captious, critical, inspire, uplift; (adj) enliven, exalted. destroy, cancel, dismantle, pull
censorious; (adj) hypercritical, picky, impious: (adj) godless, ungodly, down, level, bulldoze, ruin.
irritable, querulous; (n) faultfinding, disrespectful, profane, unholy, sinful, speaks: (n) talks.
criticism, cavil, censoriousness. unhallowed, wicked, iniquitous, sycophant: (n) flatterer, lackey,
charnel: (adj) carnal, sepulchral, irreligious, irreverent. ANTONYMS: parasite, fawner, bootlicker, adulator,
ghastly; (n) burial vault, cemetery, (adj) reverent, devout, restrained, groveler, follower, crawler, apple
charnel house. good. polisher, spaniel.
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sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to
take his warnings in time—they or their seed might yet escape a fatal Rimoth-
Gilead.%
Why have I alluded to this man? I have alluded to him, Reader, because I
think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his
contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social
regenerator of the day—as the very master of that working corps who would
restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator
on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which
rightly characterise his talent. They say he is like Fielding: they talk of his wit,
humour, comic powers. He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture:
Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his
humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the
mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does
to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. Finally, I have alluded to Mr.
Thackeray, because to him—if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger—I
have dedicated this second edition of “Jane Eyre.”
CURRER BELL.
DECEMBER 21ST, 1847.

Thesaurus
carrion: (n) carcass, offal, dead body, lambent: (adj) luminous, glowing, ghoul; (adj) tyrant, despot, harpy,
corpse, filth, ket, any filth, caroigne; lucent, aglow, lucid, brilliant; (adj, v) inquisitor, precisian, oppressor,
(adj) garbage. radiant, lustrous; (v) splendent, martinet, extortioner.
denunciation: (n) accusation, curse, shiny, beamy. warped: (adj, n) twisted; (adj)
malediction, criticism, rectitude: (adj, n) justice, honesty, deformed, crooked, perverted,
denouncement, invective, execration, equity; (n) integrity, veracity, virtue, misshapen, kinky, curved, distorted,
disapproval, tirade, anathema, uprightness, morality, purity, wry, partisan, superficial.
censure. ANTONYMS: (n) propriety; (adj) fidelity. ANTONYMS: (adj) wholesome,
advocation, appreciation, ANTONYMS: (n) immorality, impartial.
compliment, approval, praise, incorrectness, wickedness. womb: (n) belly, nursery, nest,
agreement, commendation, regenerator: (n) pulse regenerator. intestines, guts, vitals, bowels,
confirmation. vulture: (n) predator, marauder, chitterings, cradle, entrails, viscera.