The Prince and the Pauper (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

324 Pages·2006·4.32 MB·English

by  Mark Twain

THE PRINCE AND THE
PAUPER

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

Mark Twain

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The Prince and the Pauper

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

Mark Twain
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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1
PREFACE..........................................................................................................................7
CHAPTER I THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER............................................9
CHAPTER II TOM’S EARLY LIFE.....................................................................................11
CHAPTER III TOM’S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE.........................................................17
CHAPTER IV THE PRINCE’S TROUBLES BEGIN.............................................................25
CHAPTER V TOM AS A PATRICIAN.................................................................................29
CHAPTER VI TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS...............................................................37
CHAPTER VII TOM’S FIRST ROYAL DINNER...................................................................45
CHAPTER VIII THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL................................................................49
CHAPTER IX THE RIVER PAGEANT...............................................................................53
CHAPTER X THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS........................................................................57
CHAPTER XI AT GUILDHALL.........................................................................................65
CHAPTER XII THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER..........................................................71
CHAPTER XIII THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE..................................................81
CHAPTER XIV ‘LE ROI EST MORT—VIVE LE ROI’..........................................................87
CHAPTER XV TOM AS KING...........................................................................................99
CHAPTER XVI THE STATE DINNER.............................................................................111
CHAPTER XVII FOO-FOO THE FIRST...........................................................................115
CHAPTER XVIII THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS........................................................125
CHAPTER XIX THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS......................................................133
CHAPTER XX THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT.............................................................139
CHAPTER XXI HENDON TO THE RESCUE...................................................................145
CHAPTER XXII A VICTIM OF TREACHERY...................................................................151
CHAPTER XXIII THE PRINCE A PRISONER..................................................................157
CHAPTER XXIV THE ESCAPE......................................................................................161
CHAPTER XXV HENDON HALL....................................................................................165
CHAPTER XXVI DISOWNED.........................................................................................173
CHAPTER XXVII IN PRISON.........................................................................................177
CHAPTER XXVIII THE SACRIFICE................................................................................187
CHAPTER XXIX TO LONDON.......................................................................................191
CHAPTER XXX TOM’S PROGRESS...............................................................................195
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CHAPTER XXXI THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION......................................................199
CHAPTER XXXII CORONATION DAY............................................................................205
CHAPTER XXXIII EDWARD AS KING............................................................................217
CONCLUSION JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION................................................................225
GENERAL NOTE...........................................................................................................229
GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................231
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 The Prince and the Pauper 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

To
those good-mannered and agreeable children
Susie and Clara Clemens
this book is affectionately inscribed
by their father. %

Thesaurus
affectionately: (adv) lovingly, unwilling, resistant, aggressive, patriarch, beginner, founder, padre;
tenderly, warmly, dearly, caringly, repugnant, averse, stubborn, (n, v) sire; (v) engender, generate.
devotedly, kindly, ardently, unacceptable. ANTONYMS: (n) disciple, follower.
cordially, amorously, dotingly. book: (v) order, reserve, inscribe, inscribed: (adj) etched, incised,
ANTONYMS: (adv) disapprovingly, apply, write; (n) account book, graven, written, carved, carven.
frostily, roughly. pamphlet, journal, volume; (n, v) list,
agreeable: (adj) accordant, nice, sweet, record. ANTONYMS: (v) free,
consistent, suitable, amusing, exonerate.
enjoyable, affable; (adj, v) pleasant, children: (n) child, offspring,
desirable; (adj, n) acceptable. descendant, family, seed, boy, babies,
ANTONYMS: (adj) disagreeable, descendants, birth, relatives, people.
discordant, unpleasant, nasty, father: (n) dad, begetter, creator, abba,

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The quality of mercy . . .
is twice bless’d;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The thron-ed monarch better than his crown. %
Merchant of Venice

Thesaurus
becomes: (v) become. ANTONYMS: (n) base, bottom; (v) monarch: (n) sovereign, lord, emperor,
better: (adj, v) improve, mend; (adj, dishonor, dethrone, begin, ruler, czar, despot, autocrat, tsar,
adv, v) best; (v) recover, ameliorate, commence, start, depose. tzar, Danaus Plexippus; (adj) prince.
emend, reform, advance, enhance, gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant, quality: (adj, n) character, faculty; (n)
surpass; (n) bettor. ANTONYMS: accord. class, characteristic, condition, grade,
(adj, adv) worse; (adj, n) inferior; (v) mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, pity, feature, distinction, description,
worsen, deteriorate; (adj) lesser, favor, leniency, pardon, forgiveness, mark, peculiarity. ANTONYMS: (adj)
lower, tinier, ill, unhealthy, smaller, grace, charity, humanity; (n, v) cheap; (n) drawback, inferiority,
sicker. quarter. ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, mediocrity.
crown: (n, v) top, cover; (v) cap, harshness, unkindness, severity, twice: (adv) doubly, bis, two times, in
complete; (n) apex, pinnacle, crest, mercilessness, ruthlessness, two ways, once more; (adj) twenty.
summit, peak, kingdom, acme. impatience, inhumanity.