The Red Badge of Courage (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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by  Stephen Crane

THE RED BADGE OF
COURAGE

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

Stephen Crane

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The Red Badge of
Courage

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

Stephen Crane

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.
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Contents

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

CHAPTER 1......................................................................................................................3

CHAPTER 2....................................................................................................................15

CHAPTER 3....................................................................................................................25

CHAPTER 4....................................................................................................................35

CHAPTER 5....................................................................................................................39

CHAPTER 6....................................................................................................................47

CHAPTER 7....................................................................................................................55

CHAPTER 8....................................................................................................................59

CHAPTER 9....................................................................................................................65

CHAPTER 10...................................................................................................................71

CHAPTER 11...................................................................................................................77

CHAPTER 12...................................................................................................................85

CHAPTER 13...................................................................................................................93

CHAPTER 14...................................................................................................................99

CHAPTER 15.................................................................................................................105

CHAPTER 16.................................................................................................................109

CHAPTER 17.................................................................................................................115

CHAPTER 18.................................................................................................................121

CHAPTER 19.................................................................................................................127

CHAPTER 20.................................................................................................................133

CHAPTER 21.................................................................................................................139

CHAPTER 22.................................................................................................................145

CHAPTER 23.................................................................................................................151

CHAPTER 24.................................................................................................................157

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................163

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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 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 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.

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CHAPTER 1

THE COLD passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed
an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown
to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise
of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs
of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the shadow of
its banks, purled at the army's feet; and at night, when the stream had become of
a sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile
camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills.%
Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a
shirt. He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was
swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it from a
truthful cavalryman, who had heard it from his trustworthy brother, one of the
orderlies at division headquarters. He adopted the important air of a herald in
red and gold.
"We're goin' t' move t'morrah--sure," he said pompously to a group in the
company street. "We're goin' 'way up the river, cut across, an' come around in
behint 'em."
To his attentive audience he drew a loud and elaborate plan of a very brilliant
campaign. When he had finished, the blue-clothed men scattered into small
arguing groups between the rows of squat brown huts. A negro teamster who

Thesaurus
awakened: (adj) excited, aroused, stiltedly, puffily, showily, haughtily. postilion, arriero, cartman, carrier,
awakens, awoke, interested. ANTONYMS: (adv) modestly, porter, vetturino, truck driver, lorry
cavalryman: (n) dragoon, horseman, meekly. driver.
hussar, cuirassier, lancer, soldier, sorrowful: (adj) melancholy, doleful, trustworthy: (adj) honest, trusty,
lancers. sad, rueful, lugubrious, gloomy, dependable, safe, faithful, sound,
negro: (n) black, darky, blackamoor, dreary, grievous, piteous, unhappy, certain, good, responsible; (adj, n, v)
nigger, Negroid, black person, mournful. ANTONYMS: (adj) credible; (adj, n) true. ANTONYMS:
darkie, coon, moke, lightlessness; cheerful, content, joyful, successful. (adj) suspect, dubious,
(adj) dark. swelled: (adj) big, inflated, bloated, untrustworthy, undependable,
pompously: (adv) ostentatiously, swollen, adult, boastful, bighearted, sneaky, doubtful, deceitful, disloyal,
turgidly, proudly, pretentiously, bad, fully grown, crowing, elder. disreputable, irresponsible,
imperiously, conceitedly, affectedly, teamster: (n) carter, driver, muleteer, degenerate.
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had been dancing upon a cracker box with the hilarious encouragement of
twoscore soldiers was deserted. He sat mournfully down. Smoke drifted lazily
from a multitude of quaint chimneys.%
"It's a lie! that's all it is--a thunderin' lie!" said another private loudly. His
smooth face was flushed, and his hands were thrust sulkily into his trouser's
pockets. He took the matter as an affront to him. "I don't believe the derned old
army's ever going to move. We're set. I've got ready to move eight times in the
last two weeks, and we ain't moved yet."
The tall soldier felt called upon to defend the truth of a rumor he himself had
introduced. He and the loud one came near to fighting over it.
A corporal began to swear before the assemblage. He had just put a costly
board floor in his house, he said. During the early spring he had refrained from
adding extensively to the comfort of his environment because he had felt that the
army might start on the march at any moment. Of late, however, he had been
impressed that they were in a sort of eternal camp.
Many of the men engaged in a spirited debate. One outlined in a peculiarly
lucid manner all the plans of the commanding general. He was opposed by men
who advocated that there were other plans of campaign. They clamored at each
other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention. Meanwhile, the
soldier who had fetched the rumor bustled about with much importance. He
was continually assailed by questions.
"What's up, Jim?"
"Th'army's goin' t' move."
"Ah, what yeh talkin' about? How yeh know it is?"
"Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like. I don't care a hang."
There was much food for thought in the manner in which he replied. He
came near to convincing them by disdaining to produce proofs. They grew much
excited over it.

Thesaurus
affront: (n, v) insult, abuse, outrage, scattering. outlined: (adj) clean-cut, clearly
slight, snub; (v) face, offend; (n) began: (v) Gan. defined, formed, distinct, graphic.
disgrace, slur, offense, mortification. don't: (adv) not; (n) taboo, prohibition. rumor: (n) hearsay, talk, news; (n, v)
ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise; (v) please, jest: (n) gag, gibe, quip, game; (n, v) gossip, fame, buzz, bruit, noise,
placate, mollify, gratify, flatter, jape; (v) banter, jeer, deride, gird, rumour; (v) repute, reputation.
assuage, appease, adulate; (n) sneer, clown. ANTONYM: (n) truth.
pleasantry, appeasement. mournfully: (adv) sadly, sorrowfully, sulkily: (adv) morosely, glumly,
assemblage: (n) meeting, collection, glumly, woefully, unhappily, peevishly, crossly, grumpily,
congregation, set, multitude, crew, plaintively, grievously, funereally, petulantly, moodily, gloomily, surly,
confluence, gathering, gang, dejectedly, dolorously, poignantly. resentfully, angrily. ANTONYMS:
convention, convocation. ANTONYMS: (adv) cheerfully, (adv) cheerily, gladly.
ANTONYMS: (v) dispersal, joyfully. twoscore: (adj) forty, XL, cardinal.
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There was a youthful private who listened with eager ears to the words of the
tall soldier and to the varied comments of his comrades. After receiving a fill of
discussions concerning marches and attacks, he went to his hut and crawled
through an intricate hole that served it as a door. He wished to be alone with
some new thoughts that had lately come to him.%
He lay down on a wide bunk that stretched across the end of the room. In the
other end, cracker boxes were made to serve as furniture. They were grouped
about the fireplace. A picture from an illustrated weekly was upon the log walls,
and three rifles were paralleled on pegs. Equipments hung on handy projections,
and some tin dishes lay upon a small pile of firewood. A folded tent was serving
as a roof. The sunlight, without, beating upon it, made it glow a light yellow
shade. A small window shot an oblique square of whiter light upon the cluttered
floor. The smoke from the fire at times neglected the clay chimney and wreathed
into the room, and this flimsy chimney of clay and sticks made endless threats to
set ablaze the whole establishment.
The youth was in a little trance of astonishment. So they were at last going to
fight. On the morrow, perhaps, there would be a battle, and he would be in it.
For a time he was obliged to labor to make himself believe. He could not accept
with assurance an omen that he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs
of the earth.
He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life--of vague and bloody
conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire. In visions he had seen
himself in many struggles. He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his
eagle-eyed prowess. But awake he had regarded battles as crimson blotches on
the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-
images of heavy crowns and high castles. There was a portion of the world's
history which he had regarded as the time of wars, but it, he thought, had been
long gone over the horizon and had disappeared forever.
From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own
country with distrust. It must be some sort of a play affair. He had long
despaired of witnessing a Greeklike struggle. Such would be no more, he had

Thesaurus
ablaze: (adj, v) afire, alight, blazing; jumbled, messy, muddled, commingle, associate, confuse, join,
(adj) flaming, burning, on fire, disordered, all over the place, messed intermingle. ANTONYM: (v) part.
passionate, bright, flushed, fiery; (v) up, littered, in disarray, in a state. morrow: (n) morning, future, mean
splendid. ANTONYMS: (adj) dark, ANTONYM: (adj) tidy. solar day, day.
dispassionate, dull, dim, smothered, crimson: (adj, n) carmine, ruby, scarlet, omen: (n, v) harbinger, bode, herald,
unexcited, extinguished. maroon; (v) blush, flush, redden; (adj) augury; (n) indication, portent,
bygone: (adj) ancient, former, gone, bloody, ruddy, cherry; (n) deep red. forerunner, foreboding, sign, mark,
obsolete, outmoded, previous, equipments: (n) paraphernalia, auspice.
archaic, old, late; (n) preterite, facility, attire, appendages, equipage, wreathed: (adj) ringed, serpentine,
antique. ANTONYMS: (adj) future, accouterments. coiled, circular, circinate, bent,
current, coming, modern. mingle: (v) compound, combine, annulate, tortile, torqued,
cluttered: (adj) disorderly, chaotic, merge, amalgamate, intermix, mix, surrounded, curled.