Vocabulary ladder
Anna Karenina
Part ONE, 7
777 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 62% of the text; the hard 5% is 21 entries — all of them below.
A 62.2% (195 types) B 6.2% (39 types) C 4.0% (29 entries) D 1.4% (10 entries) E 0.1% (1 entries) N 3.5% (10 entries)
Band B — common reading vocabulary
A sample of 24 of 39 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.
- promptly ×2
- distinguish
- forehead
- sharply
- sensation · sensations ×5
- senses
- arisen
- conjunction
- philosophical
- reservations
- precision
- elder
- subtle
- intending
- distinctions
- consciousness ×2
- retreat · retreating ×2
- contrary
- perception · perceptions ×2
- biology
- disputing
- psychological
- derived ×2
- phrase
Band C — recognition checklist
All 29 upper-intermediate words in this chapter. Tick the ones you know; the rest are explained at the fullest help level.
- inquirer
- chime
- requisite
- hasty
- annoyance
- interruption
- plainly
- elegance
- reflex
- deduction
- breadth
- expressly
- plunge
- chilly
- quotation
- physiological
- crusade
- spectacle
- assert
- query
- concession
- comprehend
- vogue
- philosopher
- greet
- phenomena
- conception
- objection
- sociology
Band D — advanced (10 entries)
- half-brother
- a brother by one parent only
- sense-organ
- a part of the body used for feeling or seeing
- bargeman
- a man who works a flat river boat
- well-known
- known by many
- clearness
- clarity
- materialists ×2
- one who holds that only matter is real
- friendliness
- friendly warmth
- allusions
- an indirect reference
- annihilated
- to destroy utterly
- habitual
- usual by habit
Band E — rare & archaic (1 entries)
- one-sidedness
- the taking of one view only
False friends — common words wearing old senses (2)
- interest
- the spectacle that draws a crowd — the old sense here
- state
- ceremony; pomp — the old sense here
Names (10)
- harkov
- a city of the Russian south
- keiss
- a family name
- knaust
- a name cited among old writers
- koznishev ×2
- Levin's half brother, a writer on public questions
- pripasov ×2
- a Russian family name
- wurt ×2
- part of a German phrase
- ivanovitch ×5
- a Russian patronymic, meaning son of Ivan
- sergey ×6
- a Russian man's name; also Koznishev's first name
- levin ×6
- a landowner who farms his own estate in the country
- Sergey Ivanovitch
- Koznishev, Levin's half brother, by his first name and patronymic