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PUDD'NHEAD WILSON Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation Mark Twain PSAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT is a registered trademark of the 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 which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. Pudd'nhead Wilson Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation Mark Twain PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the 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 which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. ICON CLASSICS Published by ICON Group International, Inc. 7404 Trade Street San Diego, CA 92121 USA www.icongrouponline.com Pudd'nhead Wilson: Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation This edition published by ICON Classics in 2005 Printed in the United States of America. Copyright ©2005 by ICON Group International, Inc. Edited by Philip M. Parker, Ph.D. (INSEAD); Copyright ©2005, all rights reserved. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Copying our publications in whole or in part, for whatever reason, is a violation of copyright laws and can lead to penalties and fines. 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PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the 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 which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-497-25301-1 iii Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1 A WHISPER TO THE READER...........................................................................................3 CHAPTER 1 PUDD'NHEAD WINS HIS NAME....................................................................5 CHAPTER 2 DRISCOLL SPARES HIS SLAVES.................................................................11 CHAPTER 3 ROXY PLAYS A SHREWD TRICK.................................................................19 CHAPTER 4 THE WAYS OF THE CHANGELINGS............................................................25 CHAPTER 5 THE TWINS THRILL DAWSON'S LANDING..................................................33 CHAPTER 6 SWIMMING IN GLORY................................................................................39 CHAPTER 7 THE UNKNOWN NYMPH.............................................................................45 CHAPTER 8 MARSE TOM TRAMPLES HIS CHANCE.......................................................49 CHAPTER 9 TOM PRACTICES SYCOPHANCY.................................................................59 CHAPTER 10 THE NYMPH REVEALED...........................................................................65 CHAPTER 11 PUDD'NHEAD'S THRILLING DISCOVERY..................................................71 CHAPTER 12 THE SHAME OF JUDGE DRISCOLL..........................................................85 CHAPTER 13 TOM STARES AT RUIN..............................................................................91 CHAPTER 14 ROXANA INSISTS UPON REFORM.............................................................99 CHAPTER 15 THE ROBBER ROBBED..........................................................................109 CHAPTER 16 SOLD DOWN THE RIVER........................................................................119 CHAPTER 17 THE JUDGE UTTERS DIRE PROPHESY..................................................123 CHAPTER 18 ROXANA COMMANDS.............................................................................127 CHAPTER 19 THE PROPHESY REALIZED....................................................................139 CHAPTER 20 THE MURDERER CHUCKLES.................................................................149 CHAPTER 21 DOOM....................................................................................................157 CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................169 AUTHOR'S NOTE TO THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS.................................................173 GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................177 Mark Twain 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 Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 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 Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org 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 Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the 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 which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. Mark Twain 3 A WHISPER TO THE READER There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.% --Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by a trained barrister--if that is what they are called. These chapters are right, now, in every detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty-five years ago and then came over here to Florence for his health and is still helping for exercise and board in Macaroni Vermicelli's horse-feed shed, which is up the back alley as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall when he let on to be watching them build Giotto's campanile and yet always got tired looking as Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend Thesaurus campanile: (n) bell tower; (adj) steeple, exhausting: (adj) difficult, grueling, (v) approve; (n) approval, cupola, dome, turret, tower, spire, tiring, tiresome, exhaustingly, admiration. pillar, obelisk, monument, minaret. strenuous, draining, wearing, southwest: (adj) southwestern, chestnut: (adj, n) auburn, wearisome, wearying, hard. Colorado, California, Arizona; (n) commonplace; (n) chestnut tree, ANTONYMS: (adj) undemanding, Sw, geographic area, geographical sweet chestnut, wood, anecdote, joke, refreshing, easy, light. region, geographic region, banality; (adj) bay, trite, castaneous. howsoever: (adv) however, although, geographical area, compass point; choicest: (adj) optimum, best. though, howso. (adv) sou'west. chunk: (n, v) lump; (n) clump, bit, ridicule: (n, v) laugh at, deride, banter, witless: (adj, n) silly, brainless, foolish, fragment, section, mass, portion, ball, insult, taunt, scorn, scoff; (n) derision, stupid, unwise, simple; (adj) block, piece, cut. ANTONYMS: (n) mockery; (adj, n) irony; (v) jeer. mindless, senseless, thoughtless, dull, particle, scrap, whole. ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise, respect; nitwitted. 4 Pudd'nhead Wilson herself with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. He was a little rusty on his law, but he rubbed up for this book, and those two or three legal chapters are right and straight, now. He told me so himself.% Given under my hand this second day of January, 1893, at the Villa Viviani, village of Settignano, three miles back of Florence, on the hills-- the same certainly affording the most charming view to be found on this planet, and with it the most dreamlike and enchanting sunsets to be found in any planet or even in any solar system--and given, too, in the swell room of the house, with the busts of Cerretani senators and other grandees of this line looking approvingly down upon me, as they used to look down upon Dante, and mutely asking me to adopt them into my family, which I do with pleasure, for my remotest ancestors are but spring chickens compared with these robed and stately antiques, and it will be a great and satisfying lift for me, that six hundred years will. Mark Twain. Thesaurus approvingly: (adv) approving, enchanting: (adj) captivating, offense. approve, sympathetically, kindly, delightful, fascinating, bewitching, mutely: (adv) dumbly, wordlessly, positively, constructively, lovely, alluring, magical, glamorous, stilly, speechlessly, taciturnly, admiringly, deferentially, adorable; (adj, v) charming, engaging. unspokenly, quietly, noiselessly, enthusiastically, flatteringly, ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, dully, soundlessly, dummily. encouragingly. ANTONYMS: (adv) revolting, repulsive, repellent, foul, ANTONYM: (adv) noisily. censoriously, negatively. everyday, dull, disenchanting, remotest: (adj) furthest, uttermost, dreamlike: (adj) unreal, imaginary, annoying, uninteresting, despicable. endmost, extreme, last, utmost. dreamy, fanciful, unsubstantial, flattery: (n, v) cajolery; (n) blarney, robed: (adj) garmented, habilimented, fantastic, charmed, vague, weird, compliment, adulation, taffy, palaver, dressed, appareled, clothed, garbed, strange, nonexistent. ANTONYMS: praise, gloze, sweet talk, sycophancy, fixed, dolled up, clad, polished, (adj) real, ordinary. soft soap. ANTONYMS: (n) insult, vested. Mark Twain 5 CHAPTER 1 PUDD'NHEAD WINS HIS NAME Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick.% --Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning glories. Each of these pretty homes had a garden in front fenced with white palings and opulently stocked with hollyhocks, marigolds, touch-me-nots, prince's-feathers, and other old-fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood wooden boxes containing moss rose plants and terra-cotta pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there-- in sunny weather--stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its Thesaurus accented: (adj) strong, emphatic, fuzzy, smooth, like velvet, covered palings: (n) inclosure, fencing, heavy. with hair. ANTONYM: (adj) rough. enclosure. blissful: (adj) happy, heavenly, merry, geranium: (adj) asphodel, buttercup, steamboat: (n) liner, steamer, steam joyful, delighted, glad, cheerful, anemone, ranunculus, boat, steamship, cruise ship, ocean delightful, ecstatic, elated, blest. rhododendron, windflower, day lily; liner. ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy, (n) rose geranium, storksbill, herb, tint: (n, v) color, tinge, hue, stain, dye, grieving, sad, sorrowful, depressed, fish geranium. tinct; (n) shade, tincture, tone, cast; unpleasant, down, dreadful. opulently: (adv) richly, plentifully, (v) paint. ANTONYMS: (n) white, fenced: (adj) hedged in, provisional, profusely, luxuriantly, prosperously, pallor; (v) whiten, pale. guarded, bounded. luxuriously, exuberantly, affluently, whitewashed: (adj) overpowered, furry: (adj) furred, hirsute, soft, wealthily, generously, abundantly. overcome, crushed, conquered, velvety, downy, shaggy, bushy, ANTONYM: (adv) meagerly. beaten, routed, painted.

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