Table Of ContentTHE HUNCHBACK OF
NOTRE-DAME
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre-
Dame
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Victor Hugo
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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1
PREFACE..........................................................................................................................3
BOOK I.............................................................................................................................5
CHAPTER I THE GRAND HALL............................................................................................................7
CHAPTER II PIERRE GRINGOIRE........................................................................................................23
CHAPTER III MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL......................................................................................35
CHAPTER IV MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE...............................................................................43
CHAPTER V QUASIMODO....................................................................................................................53
CHAPTER VI ESMERALDA...................................................................................................................61
BOOK II..........................................................................................................................65
CHAPTER I FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA...................................................................................67
CHAPTER II THE PLACE DE GREVE..................................................................................................71
CHAPTER III KISSES FOR BLOWS.......................................................................................................75
CHAPTER IV THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH
THE STREETS IN THE EVENING..........................................................................................................87
CHAPTER V RESULT OF THE DANGERS..........................................................................................93
CHAPTER VI THE BROKEN JUG.........................................................................................................97
CHAPTER VII A BRIDAL NIGHT.......................................................................................................117
BOOK III.......................................................................................................................129
CHAPTER I NOTRE-DAME.................................................................................................................131
CHAPTER II A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS...................................................................................141
BOOK IV.......................................................................................................................165
CHAPTER I GOOD SOULS...................................................................................................................167
CHAPTER II CLAUDE FROLLO..........................................................................................................173
CHAPTER III IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE..................................................179
CHAPTER IV THE DOG AND HIS MASTER....................................................................................187
CHAPTER V MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO.............................................................................189
CHAPTER VI UNPOPULARITY..........................................................................................................197
BOOK V........................................................................................................................199
CHAPTER I ABBAS BEATI MARTINI................................................................................................201
CHAPTER II THIS WILL KILL THAT.................................................................................................213
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BOOK VI.......................................................................................................................229
CHAPTER I AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY............................231
CHAPTER II THE RAT-HOLE..............................................................................................................243
CHAPTER III HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE.....................................................249
CHAPTER IV A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER............................................................................271
CHAPTER V END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE.........................................................................283
BOOK VII......................................................................................................................285
CHAPTER I THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE'S SECRET TO A GOAT..............................287
CHAPTER II A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.................305
CHAPTER III THE BELLS.....................................................................................................................315
CHAPTER IV ANArKH.........................................................................................................................319
CHAPTER V THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK.....................................................................335
CHAPTER VI THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE..343
CHAPTER VII THE MYSTERIOUS MONK.......................................................................................349
CHAPTER VIII THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER.......................359
BOOK VIII.....................................................................................................................369
CHAPTER I THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF.........................................................371
CHAPTER II CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY
LEAF...........................................................................................................................................................383
CHAPTER III END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF................389
CHAPTER IV LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA--LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER
HERE..........................................................................................................................................................393
CHAPTER V THE MOTHER.................................................................................................................409
CHAPTER VI THREE HUMAN HEARTS DIFFERENTLY CONSTRUCTED.............................415
BOOK IX.......................................................................................................................433
CHAPTER I DELIRIUM.........................................................................................................................435
CHAPTER II HUNCHBACKED, ONE EYED, LAME......................................................................447
CHAPTER III DEAF................................................................................................................................453
CHAPTER IV EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL............................................................................457
CHAPTER V THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR....................................................................................469
CHAPTER VI CONTINUATION OF THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR..........................................473
BOOK X........................................................................................................................477
CHAPTER I GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION--RUE DES
BERNARDINS..........................................................................................................................................479
CHAPTER II TURN VAGABOND.......................................................................................................493
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CHAPTER III LONG LIVE MIRTH......................................................................................................497
CHAPTER IV AN AWKWARD FRIEND............................................................................................507
CHAPTER V THE RETREAT IN WHICH MONSIEUR LOUIS OF FRANCE SAYS HIS
PRAYERS...................................................................................................................................................529
CHAPTER VI LITTLE SWORD IN POCKET......................................................................................563
CHAPTER VII CHATEAUPERS TO THE RESCUE..........................................................................565
BOOK XI.......................................................................................................................569
CHAPTER I THE LITTLE SHOE..........................................................................................................571
CHAPTER II THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE CLAD IN WHITE (Dante)....................................607
CHAPTER III THE MARRIAGE OF PHOEBUS................................................................................617
CHAPTER IV THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO.........................................................................619
NOTE ADDED TO THE DEFINITIVE EDITION................................................................623
GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................629
Victor Hugo 1
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR
Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on
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building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®),
GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1
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synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in
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PREFACE
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A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the
author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following
word, engraved by hand upon the wall:
ANArKH.
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone,
with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their
forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it
had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and
especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the
author deeply.
He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in
torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this
stigma of crime or unhappiness upon the brow of the ancient church.
Afterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not which,
and the inscription disappeared. For it is thus that people have been in the habit
of proceeding with the marvelous churches of the Middle Ages for the last two
hundred years. Mutilations come to them from every quarter, from within as
Thesaurus
calligraphy: (n) script, writing, embossed. v) low spirits; (n) gloominess,
penmanship, lettering, chirography, marvelous: (adj) wonderful, fantastic, depression. ANTONYMS: (n)
handwriting, letters, pencraft, incredible, fabulous, extraordinary, happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness,
beautiful handwriting, print. tremendous, grand, astonishing, optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery,
engraved: (adj) carved, inscribed, terrific, great; (adj, v) prodigious. satisfied.
etched, sculptured, chased, cut in, ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, nook: (n) angle, niche, recess, hole,
graphic, graven; (prep) insculptured; mundane, abysmal, bad, dreadful, coign, bay, compartment, oriel, cove,
(v) fixed, imprinted. unworthy, dire, humdrum, refuge, haven.
graven: (adj) carved, engraved, etched, unimpressive, unremarkable, boring. towers: (n) edifice.
sculptured, sculptile, sculpted, melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) whitewashed: (adj) overpowered,
inscribed, carven. gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, overcome, crushed, conquered,
imprinted: (adj) printed, marked, dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, beaten, routed, painted.
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