Vocabulary ladder
Pride and Prejudice
CHAPTER IV.
1,067 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 61% of the text; the hard 6% is 33 entries — all of them below.
A 61.1% (233 types) B 7.0% (62 types) C 2.9% (27 entries) D 1.2% (13 entries) E 0.8% (8 entries) N 3.7% (12 entries)
Band B — common reading vocabulary
A sample of 24 of 62 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.
- sufficiently
- manor
- reliance
- temper ×3
- accidental
- lively
- tempted
- compliment · compliments ×2
- continually
- inherited
- offence
- admired ×2
- characteristic
- mistaken
- sensible
- remainder
- thereby
- likewise ×2
- spite
- pronounced
- charming
- approve
- bred
- breeding
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.
- quickness
- preside
- agreeable
- stiffness
- flatter
- hasty
- attentive
- dissatisfied
- deficient
- folly
- conceive
- openness
- candid
- converse
- disposition
- acquainted
- doubtful
- seminary
- disposed
- circumstance
- apt
- neighbour
- unwilling
- respectable
- pleasing
- tenant
- cautious
Band D — advanced (13 entries)
- good-humour
- cheerful good temper
- pleasanter
- more pleasant
- meanly
- in a low, small-minded way
- young-man
- young-man: a young man
- stupider
- more stupid
- endeared
- to make dear
- fastidious
- hard to please
- haughty
- coldly proud
- gallantry
- courtly charm to women; bravery
- conceited
- too proud of oneself
- censuring
- blame; disapproval
- commendation
- praise
- formality
- strict formal order
Band E — rare & archaic (8 entries)
- good-humoured
- cheerful and kind
- unassailed
- not attacked
- pliancy
- yielding easiness
- easiness ×2
- easy-going nature
- ductility
- yielding easiness
- ostentation
- showy display
- affectation
- a put-on manner; pretense
- candour
- frankness
False friends — common words wearing old senses (2)
- interest
- the spectacle that draws a crowd — the old sense here
- sensible
- aware — the old sense here
Names (9)
- meryton
- Meryton, the market town a mile from Longbourn
- netherfield ×2
- Netherfield Park, the house Mr Bingley takes
- bingley ×11
- Mr Charles Bingley, the amiable rich young man who takes Netherfield
- lizzy
- Lizzy, the family name for Elizabeth Bennet
- bennet ×3
- the Bennets of Longbourn: Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters
- hurst ×2
- Mr and Mrs Hurst, Bingley's brother-in-law and sister
- darcy ×7
- Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley, proud, rich, and Elizabeth's match
- Miss Bingley
- Caroline Bingley, his sister
- Mr Bingley
- the amiable rich young man at Netherfield