As You Like It (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

186 Pages·2006·1.46 MB·English

by  William Shakespeare

AS YOU LIKE IT

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

William Shakespeare

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As You Like It

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

William Shakespeare

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
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As You Like It: Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP®
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ISBN 0-497-25338-0
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Contents

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

PERSONS REPRESENTED................................................................................................3

ACT I................................................................................................................................5

ACT II.............................................................................................................................31

ACT III............................................................................................................................55

ACT IV............................................................................................................................87

ACT V...........................................................................................................................105

EPILOGUE....................................................................................................................125

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................127

William Shakespeare 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 As You Like It by William Shakespeare 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.

William Shakespeare 3
PERSONS REPRESENTED

DUKE, living in exile.%
FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions.
AMIENS, } Lord attending on the Duke in his
JAQUES, Banishment.
LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick.
CHARLES, his Wrestler.
OLIVER,
}
JAQUES, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois.

ORLANDO,
ADAM,
}
Servant to Oliver.
DENNIS,
TOUCHSTONE, a Clown.
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar.
CORIN, Shepherd.
SILVIUS, Shepherd.
WILLIAM, a Country Fellow, in love with Audrey.
A person representing HYMEN.
ROSALIND, Daughter to the banished Duke.
CELIA, Daughter to Frederick.
PHEBE, a Shepherdess.
AUDREY, a Country Wench.
LORDS belonging to the two DUKES; PAGES, FORESTERS, and other
ATTENDANTS.

Thesaurus
attending: (v) attend; (n) presence, Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar detestation, detachment, indifference;
nursing, care, appearing, observation; Charles, Charles river. (v) abhor; (adv) roughly.
(adj) concomitant, attendant, living: (adj) alive, live, extant, oliver: (n) king Oliver.
ministrant, in attendance, ancillary. animated, active, fresh, animate, representing: (adj) representative,
ANTONYMS: (n) nonattendance, quick; (n) livelihood, life, being. represented, representant; (n)
inattention. ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n) representation, imitation; (v) mock,
belonging: (adj) appertaining, death, leisure. pseudo, simulating; (prep) in place of,
appertinent, apropos, apposite; (n) love: (n) desire, fondness, affection, in lieu of, instead of.
household, family, appendage, dear, liking, benevolence, charity, upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up,
appurtenance, intimacy, commodity, honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v) onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on
closeness. ANTONYM: (n) antipathy. worship. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike; that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at.
charles: (n) Jacques Charles, prince (n) abhorrence, hatred, aversion,

William Shakespeare 5

ACT I

SCENE I. AN ORCHARD NEAR OLIVER'S HOUSE.%

[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.]
ORLANDO.
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion,--bequeathed me by will but
poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his
blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques
he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, he
keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at
home unkept: for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that
differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides
that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that
end riders dearly hired; but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but
growth; for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him
as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that
nature gave me, his countenance seems to take from me: he lets me feed with
his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines
my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the
spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this

Thesaurus
gentility: (n) elegance, cultivation, (n) disobedience, uprising, homely, unsophisticatedly, roughly,
politeness, decorum, genteelness, revolution, outbreak, pastorally, crudely, vulgarly, rusticly,
breeding, courtesy, nobility, insubordination, defiance, rising; (v) savagely, unpolishedly.
aristocracy, propriety; (adj) urbanity. rebel, rise. ANTONYMS: (n) loyalty, stalling: (n) delay, stop, stand, stall of
ANTONYMS: (n) vulgarity, obedience. a turbocompressor, obstruction,
rudeness. plentifully: (adv) plenteously, kiosk, cubicle, carrell, carrel, booth,
goldenly: (adv) aureately, bountifully, bounteously, arrest.
prosperously, excellently, richly, abundantly, profusely, richly, fully, unkept: (adj) humbled, discontinuous,
fortunately, flourishingly, happily, liberally, opulently, amply, low, broken in, impoverished,
auspiciously, opportunely, rosily, prolifically. ANTONYM: (adv) busted, destroyed financially,
tawnily. meagerly. disordered, rugged, confused,
mutiny: (n, v) insurrection, rebellion; rustically: (adv) simplely, rurally, crushed.