Vocabulary ladder
Anna Karenina
Part ONE, 6
1,146 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 63% of the text; the hard 6% is 31 entries — all of them below.
A 63.4% (245 types) B 5.6% (47 types) C 2.8% (27 entries) D 1.0% (9 entries) E 0.2% (2 entries) N 4.9% (20 entries)
Band B — common reading vocabulary
A sample of 24 of 47 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.
- honorable
- despair
- worthless
- feminine ×2
- likelihood
- arisen · arising ×2
- furious
- barns
- perfection
- escorted
- sentiments
- spite
- exceptional
- intimate ×2
- charming
- breeding
- conviction
- cattle
- creature ×2
- determination
- gentleman
- moreover
- perceived
- mysterious ×4
Band C — recognition checklist
All 27 upper-intermediate words in this chapter. Tick the ones you know; the rest are explained at the fullest help level.
- footman
- shapely
- grownup
- beholder
- blushing
- earthly
- lofty
- satin
- conceive
- audible
- stocking
- abruptly
- blush
- cloak
- cultivate
- intimacy
- imagining
- veil
- deprive
- diplomat
- eld
- boulevard
- obstacle
- drown
- defect
- definite
- destine
Band D — advanced (9 entries)
- half-long
- of middling length
- sister-in-law
- a husband's or wife's sister
- tightly-drawn
- pulled tight
- thirty-two ×2
- explained by the text itself
- disadvantageous
- unfavorable
- poetical ×2
- of poetry
- enchantment
- magical delight
- enchanting
- delighted as by magic
- shrouded
- wrapped and hidden
Band E — rare & archaic (2 entries)
- good-natured
- kindly by nature
- cockade
- a knot of ribbon worn on a hat as a badge
False friends — common words wearing old senses (2)
- state
- ceremony; pomp — the old sense here
- use
- habit; custom — the old sense here
Names (14)
- linon
- the French governess of the Shtcherbatsky girls
- shtcherbatskaya
- the family name Shtcherbatsky in its female form
- shtcherbatsky ×3
- the family name of Kitty and Dolly
- shtcherbatskys ×5
- the Shtcherbatsky family
- oblonsky ×4
- Anna's brother, a genial Moscow official
- tversky ×2
- a Russian family name
- levins
- the Levin family
- lvov
- a Russian family name
- konstantin
- Levin's first name
- natalia ×2
- a Russian woman's name
- levin ×11
- a landowner who farms his own estate in the country
- dolly ×3
- the eldest Shtcherbatsky sister, married to Oblonsky
- baltic
- the sea between northern Europe and Scandinavia
- kitty ×10
- the youngest of the Shtcherbatsky sisters