Vocabulary ladder
Frankenstein
Letter 3
300 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 55% of the text; the hard 6% is 16 entries — all of them below.
A 55.0% (110 types) B 8.7% (24 types) C 5.3% (15 entries) D 3.3% (10 entries) E 0.3% (1 entries) N 2.3% (5 entries)
Band B — common reading vocabulary
A sample of 24 of 24 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.
- warmth
- voyage ×3
- stiff
- continually
- triumph
- fortunate
- assured
- leak
- pours
- beloved
- bless
- resolved
- testimonies
- floating
- proceed
- tracing
- bold
- breathe
- encounter
- shores
- indicating
- sake
- sheets
- element
Band C — recognition checklist
All 15 upper-intermediate words in this chapter. Tick the ones you know; the rest are explained at the fullest help level.
- homeward
- untamed
- wherefore
- involuntarily
- springing
- dismay
- navigator
- scarcely
- haste
- prudent
- endeavour
- latitude
- attain
- gale
- swell
Band D — advanced (10 entries)
- pathless
- without a path
- merchantman
- a trading ship
- rashly
- without thinking of the danger
- persevering
- keeping on without giving up
- befallen
- to happen to
- speedily
- quickly
- adieu
- farewell — French
- renovating
- renovated: restored and made new
- hitherto
- up to now
- obedient
- doing as told
Band E — rare & archaic (1 entries)
- ardently
- with burning eagerness
False friends — common words wearing old senses (1)
- witness
- consider as proof — the old sense here
Names (1)
- saville
- Mrs Margaret Saville, Walton's sister in England, to whom he writes