Vocabulary ladder
The Picture of Dorian Gray
THE PREFACE
385 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 58% of the text; the hard 2% is 7 entries — all of them below.
A 57.7% (93 types) B 10.9% (33 types) C 3.4% (11 entries) D 0.5% (2 entries) E 0.5% (2 entries) N 1.0% (3 entries)
Band B — common reading vocabulary
A sample of 24 of 33 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.
- accord
- morality
- dislike ×2
- translate
- virtue
- critic · critics ×2
- admire · admires ×2
- musician
- sympathy · sympathies ×2
- elect
- charming
- ethical ×2
- disagree
- rage ×2
- corrupt
- creator
- useless ×2
- beneath
- forgive
- craft
- oscar
- symbol ×2
- diversity
- instruments
Band C — recognition checklist
All 11 upper-intermediate words in this chapter. Tick the ones you know; the rest are explained at the fullest help level.
- morbid
- peril
- imperfect
- immoral
- spectator
- conceal
- intensely
- cultivate
- autobiography
- realism
- nineteenth
Band D — advanced (2 entries)
- subject-matter
- the thing dealt with
- romanticism
- the taste for feeling and wonder over reason
Band E — rare & archaic (2 entries)
- unpardonable
- not to be forgiven
- mannerism
- a marked trick of style
False friends — common words wearing old senses (1)
- use
- habit; custom — the old sense here