The Picture of Dorian Gray
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN
GRAY
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian
Gray
Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
Oscar Wilde
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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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation
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ISBN 0-497-25310-0
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Contents |
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR |
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THE PREFACE .................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 1 ...................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 2 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 3 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 4 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 5 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 6 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 7 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 8 .................................................................................................................... |
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CHAPTER 9 .................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 10................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 11................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 12................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 13................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 14................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 15................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 16................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 17................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 18................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 19................................................................................................................. |
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CHAPTER 20................................................................................................................. |
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GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... |
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Oscar Wilde |
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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 Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 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 websters@icongroupbooks.com
The Editor Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org
1 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.
Oscar Wilde |
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THE PREFACE
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subjectmatter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
OSCAR WILDE
Oscar Wilde |
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CHAPTER 1
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pinkflowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden
Thesaurus
bourdon: (adv) terzetto; (n) drone pipe, drone.
divan: (n) anthology, settee, sofa, diwan, directory, Chamber of Deputies, chair, Cortes, sanhedrim, woolsack, chesterfield.
easel: (n) bench, workbench, trestle, tripod, studio easel, desk. flamelike: (adj) blazing, flamy. laburnum: (n) genus laburnum. lilac: (adj) lavender, mauve, purple, violet, puce, chromatic; (n) shrub,
heliotrope, ash, common lilac, family Oleaceae.
painters: (n) painter. shouldering: (n) assumption.
straggling: (adj) rambling, straggly, spread, few, trailing, untidy, vagabond, sprawly, sprawled. ANTONYM: (adj) compact. swiftness: (n) speed, haste, rapidity, celerity, acceleration, quickness, promptness, pace, velocity, agility, dispatch. ANTONYM: (n)
clumsiness.
tremulous: (adj) shaky, trembling, shaking, fearful, apprehensive, quavering, fidgety, shivering; (n) nervous, diffident, coy. ANTONYMS: (adj) stable, confident, steady. unmown: (adj) not trimmed, rough, not cut, complete, standing. woodbine: (n) honeysuckle, woodbind, American ivy, genus Lonicera, Lonicera, vine, Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia.