Candide (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

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by  Voltaire

CANDIDE

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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR..........................................................................................1
CHAPTER I HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICIENT CASTLE AND HOW

HE WAS DRIVEN THENCE................................................................................................3

CHAPTER II WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS...................................7
CHAPTER III HOW CANDIDE ESCAPED FROM THE BULGARIANS AND WHAT BEFELL

HIM AFTERWARDS.........................................................................................................11
CHAPTER IV HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS AGAIN AND WHAT

HAPPENED TO HIM........................................................................................................15
CHAPTER V A TEMPEST, A SHIPWRECK, AN EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT ELSE BEFELL

DR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES, THE ANABAPTIST............................................19
CHAPTER VI HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A SUPERB AUTO-DE-FE TO PREVENT ANY

FUTURE EARTHQUAKES, AND HOW CANDIDE UNDERWENT PUBLIC FLAGELLATION..23
CHAPTER VII HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND HOW HE FOUND

THE OBJECT OF HIS LOVE............................................................................................25

CHAPTER VIII CUNEGONDE'S STORY...........................................................................29
CHAPTER IX WHAT HAPPENED TO CUNEGONDE, CANDIDE, THE GRAND INQUISITOR,

AND THE JEWS..............................................................................................................33
CHAPTER X IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, AND THE OLD WOMAN

ARRIVE AT CADIZ, AND OF THEIR EMBARKATION.........................................................37

CHAPTER XI THE HISTORY OF THE OLD WOMAN.........................................................41

CHAPTER XII THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED...........................45
CHAPTER XIII HOW CANDIDE WAS OBLIGED TO LEAVE THE FAIR CUNEGONDE AND

THE OLD WOMAN..........................................................................................................51
CHAPTER XIV THE RECEPTION CANDIDE AND CACAMBO MET WITH AMONG THE

JESUITS IN PARAGUAY..................................................................................................55

CHAPTER XV HOW CANDIDE KILLED THE BROTHER OF HIS DEAR CUNEGONDE.......59
CHAPTER XVI WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR TWO TRAVELERS WITH TWO GIRLS, TWO

MONKEYS, AND THE SAVAGES, CALLED OREILLONS...................................................63
CHAPTER XVII CANDIDE AND HIS VALET ARRIVE IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO.

WHAT THEY SAW HERE.................................................................................................69
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CHAPTER XVIII WHAT THEY SAW IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO...........................75
CHAPTER XIX WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM, AND HOW CANDIDE BECAME

ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN..........................................................................................81

CHAPTER XX WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE AND MARTIN ON THEIR PASSAGE...................87
CHAPTER XXI CANDIDE AND MARTIN, WHILE THUS REASONING WITH EACH OTHER,

DRAW NEAR TO THE COAST OF FRANCE......................................................................91

CHAPTER XXII WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN IN FRANCE.....................95
CHAPTER XXIII CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCH UPON THE ENGLISH COAST. WHAT

THEY SEE HERE..........................................................................................................107

CHAPTER XXIV OF PACQUETTE AND FRIAR GIROFLEE..............................................109
CHAPTER XXV CANDIDE AND MARTIN PAY A VISIT TO SEIGNOR POCOCURANTE, A

NOBLE VENETIAN........................................................................................................115

CHAPTER XXVI CANDIDE AND MARTIN SUP WITH SIX SHARPERS. WHO THEY WERE121

CHAPTER XXVII CANDIDE'S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE......................................125

CHAPTER XXVIII WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, PANGLOSS, MARTIN, ETC 131
CHAPTER XXIX IN WHAT MANNER CANDIDE FOUND MISS CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD

WOMAN AGAIN.............................................................................................................135

CHAPTER XXX CONCLUSION......................................................................................137

GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................143
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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 Candide by Voltaire 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
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and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided
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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
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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.

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CHAPTER %I

HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A
MAGNIFICIENT CASTLE AND HOW HE WAS
DRIVEN THENCE

In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of
Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most
sweet disposition. His face was the true index of his mind. He had a solid
judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had
his name of Candide. The old servants of the house suspected him to have been
the son of the Baron's sister, by a very good sort of a gentleman of the
neighborhood, whom that young lady refused to marry, because he could
produce no more than threescore and eleven quarterings in his arms; the rest of
the genealogical tree belonging to the family having been lost through the
injuries of time.
The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle
had not only a gate, but even windows, and his great hall was hung with

Thesaurus
disposition: (n) attitude, character, quarter, environs, section; (adj) complexity, ambiguity, magnificence,
disposal, tendency, predisposition, neighboring, local. sophistication, dishonesty, clutter,
inclination, propensity, bias, presume: (v) dare, consider, believe, warmth.
arrangement, direction, aptitude. think, infer, guess, expect, esteem, threescore: (adj) lx.
endowed: (adj) gifted, clever, cute, conclude, suppose, conjecture. unaffected: (adj) sincere, artless,
felicitous, competent, blessed, artistic, ANTONYMS: (v) appreciate, despair, natural, plain, real, genuine,
brilliant, ingenious, talented, speculate. unimpressed, ingenuous, naive,
qualitied. simplicity: (n) plainness, simpleness, untouched, honest. ANTONYMS:
genealogical: (adj) genealogic, easiness, ease, clarity, austerity, (adj) unnatural, sophisticated,
hereditary, racial, ancestral. gullibility, severity, artlessness, refined, pretentious, moved, hurt,
neighborhood: (n) vicinity, district, ignorance; (adj, n) inexperience. disturbed, changed, vulnerable,
area, community, locality, place, ANTONYMS: (n) difficulty, dishonest, emotional.
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tapestry. He used to hunt with his mastiffs and spaniels instead of greyhounds;
his groom served him for huntsman; and the parson of the parish officiated as
his grand almoner. He was called "My Lord" by all his people, and he never told
a story but everyone laughed at it.%
My Lady Baroness, who weighed three hundred and fifty pounds,
consequently was a person of no small consideration; and then she did the
honors of the house with a dignity that commanded universal respect. Her
daughter was about seventeen years of age, fresh-colored, comely, plump, and
desirable. The Baron's son seemed to be a youth in every respect worthy of the
father he sprung from. Pangloss, the preceptor, was the oracle of the family, and
little Candide listened to his instructions with all the simplicity natural to his age
and disposition.
Master Pangloss taught the metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology. He
could prove to admiration that there is no effect without a cause; and, that in this
best of all possible worlds, the Baron's castle was the most magnificent of all
castles, and My Lady the best of all possible baronesses.
"It is demonstrable", said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than as they
are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be
created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles,
therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings,
accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct
castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the
province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore
we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do
not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best."
Candide listened attentively and believed implicitly, for he thought Miss
Cunegonde excessively handsome, though he never had the courage to tell her
so. He concluded that next to the happiness of being Baron of Thunder-ten-
tronckh, the next was that of being Miss Cunegonde, the next that of seeing her
every day, and the last that of hearing the doctrine of Master Pangloss, the
greatest philosopher of the whole province, and consequently of the whole
world.

Thesaurus
almoner: (n) medical social worker, decent, fair, attractive, decorous, stalker; (v) sportsman.
accountant, beadle, verger, teller, shapely, proper; (adj, adv, v) seemly; parson: (n) cleric, clergyman, rector,
Suisse, paymaster, sacristan, (adj, adv) sightly, lovely. pastor, curate, preacher, ecclesiastic,
liquidator, cashier, sexton. ANTONYMS: (adj) repulsive, divine, priest, vicar, father.
attentively: (adv) carefully, mindfully, homely, plain, revolting, unattractive, preceptor: (n) master, schoolmaster,
watchfully, observantly, heedfully, ugly. don, pedagogue, instructor, teacher,
vigilantly, cautiously, considerately, commanded: (adj) lawful. educator, principal, mentor, monitor,
diligently, alertly, obligingly. hewn: (adj) downed. guide.
ANTONYMS: (adv) unhelpfully, honors: (n) formality. tapestry: (n) arras, tapis, textile,
neglectfully, abruptly, carelessly, huntsman: (n) fowler, trapper, embroidery, hanging, carpet, cloth,
hastily, casually. hawker, huntress, falconer, complexness, fabric, material,
comely: (adj) beautiful, good-looking, pothunter, jaeger, seeker, tracker, mending.
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One day when Miss Cunegonde went to take a walk in a little neighboring
wood which was called a park, she saw, through the bushes, the sage Doctor
Pangloss giving a lecture in experimental philosophy to her mother's
chambermaid, a little brown wench, very pretty, and very tractable. As Miss
Cunegonde had a great disposition for the sciences, she observed with the
utmost attention the experiments which were repeated before her eyes; she
perfectly well understood the force of the doctor's reasoning upon causes and
effects. She retired greatly flurried, quite pensive and filled with the desire of
knowledge, imagining that she might be a sufficing reason for young Candide,
and he for her.%
On her way back she happened to meet the young man; she blushed, he
blushed also; she wished him a good morning in a flattering tone, he returned
the salute, without knowing what he said. The next day, as they were rising from
dinner, Cunegonde and Candide slipped behind the screen. The miss dropped
her handkerchief, the young man picked it up. She innocently took hold of his
hand, and he as innocently kissed hers with a warmth, a sensibility, a grace-all
very particular; their lips met; their eyes sparkled; their knees trembled; their
hands strayed. The Baron chanced to come by; he beheld the cause and effect,
and, without hesitation, saluted Candide with some notable kicks on the breech
and drove him out of doors. The lovely Miss Cunegonde fainted away, and, as
soon as she came to herself, the Baroness boxed her ears. Thus a general
consternation was spread over this most magnificent and most agreeable of all
possible castles.

Thesaurus
beheld: (adj) visual. imaginant. strayed: (v) stray.
boxed: (adj) bordered, enclosed. neighboring: (adj, adv) adjacent, near; sufficing: (adj) sufficient, satisfactory,
breech: (n) behind, bottom, croup, tail, (adj) adjoining, nearby, contiguous, decent, enough.
buttock, backside scut, backside, loin, neighbor, abutting, next, neighborly, tractable: (adj, prep) docile; (adj)
dorsum, buttocks, breeches. nigh, next to. ANTONYMS: (adj) obedient, ductile, tame, gentle,
chambermaid: (n) maid, fille de distant, remote, far, national. yielding, manageable; (adj, v) pliable,
chambre, maidservant, housemaid, pensive: (adj) contemplative, flexible, pliant, plastic. ANTONYMS:
domestic, chamberer, carpetmonger. meditative, musing, wistful, dreamy, (adj) intractable, unmanageable,
flurried: (adj) frightened, agitated; (v) melancholy, abstracted, broody, unruly, rebellious.
gallied. reflective, moody; (adj, v) sad. wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet,
imagining: (n) conception, daydream, ANTONYMS: (adj) shallow, satisfied, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut,
fantasy, opinion; (v) imagine; (adj) carefree. nymph, dame; (n, v) drab.