Vocabulary ladder

Anna Karenina

Part ONE, 8

919 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 58% of the text; the hard 8% is 29 entries — all of them below.

A 58.0% (202 types) B 5.0% (41 types) C 1.6% (13 entries) D 1.0% (9 entries) E 0.3% (3 entries) N 6.7% (17 entries)

Band B — common reading vocabulary

A sample of 24 of 41 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.

Band C — recognition checklist

All 13 upper-intermediate words in this chapter. Tick the ones you know; the rest are explained at the fullest help level.

Band D — advanced (9 entries)

half-brother
a brother by one parent only
self-government
the ruling of oneself, or of a people by itself
self-defense
the guarding of oneself from attack
charitably
kindly
paper-weight
a desk weight for papers
patronizing
to sponsor; to treat as a lesser
overdo
overdid: carried too far
deference
respectful yielding
dissipated
wasted in idle pleasure

Band E — rare & archaic (3 entries)

penitently
with sorrow for a wrong done
dejectedly
in a low and beaten way
shouldn
should — shouldn't: should not

False friends — common words wearing old senses (2)

awful
full of awe — the old sense here
interest
the spectacle that draws a crowd — the old sense here

Names (12)

prokofy
a Russian man's name
shtcherbatskys
the Shtcherbatsky family
trubin
a Russian family name
oblonsky
Anna's brother, a genial Moscow official
ivanovitch ×13
a Russian patronymic, meaning son of Ivan
nikolay ×4
a Russian man's name; also Levin's elder brother
konstantin
Levin's first name
sergey ×13
a Russian man's name; also Koznishev's first name
levin ×18
a landowner who farms his own estate in the country
kitty
the youngest of the Shtcherbatsky sisters
russians
the people of Russia
Sergey Ivanovitch
Koznishev, Levin's half brother, by his first name and patronymic