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A vocabulary word list for The Prince and the Pauper is arranged in order of appearance from the Signet Classic Edition published by Penguin 1996.
  • The Prince and the Pauper:First vocabulary list of 90 words:
    pauper (page 15) stealthily (17) mendicancy (17) stringent (17) lament (18) forlorn (19) cuffing (19) obeisance (19) sordidness (20) sauntered (21) halberds (22): combination spear and battle-ax mayhap (23) prithee (24) raiment (24) lackeys (24) enow (24) confrere (24) maltreated (26) sally (28) homage (28) besmirched (29) squalid (29) ruffian (29) profaned (29) stupefied (30) vermin (30) trifling (32) supplicating (32) sheath (34) baleful (35) attainted (35) vigilant (40) giddy (41) exaltation (44) vagaries (46) sumptuous (48) zeal (48) ashen (49) pallor (49) restoratives (49) wrath (50) miter (51) myriad (52) pretensions (52) purfled with minever (53): bordered with fur pourpoints (53): quilted doublets hauts-de-chasses (53): breeches habited (54) doublet (54) hovel (54) cudgel (55) loathsome (55) frowzy (55) malignant (55) mummeries (55) ruffianly (56) freighted (56) joviality (57) sordid (57) interposing (57) infuriated (57) eftsoons (60): soon afterwards spurious (61) usurper (62) bodkin (64): embroidered fabric made of woven silk and gold thread bawdricks (64): ornamental belts worn diagonally across the chest voyded (64): cut to show the garment underneath cannel-bone (64): collarbone mommarye (64): mummery, or mimed acting taunt (65) goad (65) mortification (65) mobtide (66) revel (66) liege (66) prodigious (67) waif (68) soliloquizing (71) ablutions (72) alacrity (72) covetous (73) raiment (74) perplexity (78) dissipated (78) athwart (78) betwixt (79) plebeian (80) trussed (80) cozened (80) asunder (84)
  • The Prince and the Pauper, the Second vocabulary word list of 95 words:
    illustrious (86) morrow (86) aggrandizement (87) brevity (88) perplexedly (89) annulled (90) peradventure (90) fettered (93) dreariness (94) durst (95) forbore (95) indecorum (98) wending (99) cataclysm (101) peals (104) blithe (104) formidable (105) famished (106) sirrah (107): sir; an address to those of a lower status traversed (107) prating (107) budges (110): clothes-stealers bulks and files (110): pickpockets and their mates clapperdogeons (110): born beggars maunders (110): beggars dells, doxies, morts (110): women proffered (114) petulant (115) ribald (115) epithets (115) levy (119) demented (123) holpen (124): help sagacity (125) cordial (125) staggerer (125) mortification (128) archangel (129) apprehensions (129) venomous (130) hovel (132) whetted (133) placidly (133) inarticulate (134) palter (134) vagrant (134) complaisance (135) annulled (138) unslaked (139) cudgel (139) mendicant (140) stealthily (140) pilfering (141) tirade (141) paltry (141) abate (144) consternation (144) decorum (144) indifference (146) Ods body! (147) blithely (149) prodigal (152) dissent (152) fervency (153) compulsion (157) peradventure (157) tinge (158) fettered (158) perchance (158) give you countenance (158): to recognize trifling (160) taciturn (160) carousing (161) repudiate (161) pillory (169) vagabond (169) rabble (169) sardonic (170) magnanimous (170) scourge (171) gibes (171) derided (175) lofty (175) adulation (176) salaaming (176) zeal (176) penury (176) thither (178) venerable (178) largess (180) plebeian (187) fealty (188) obeisance (189) varlet (192) relict (201): widow

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