Vocabulary ladder
War and Peace
Book One, XIII
736 words. Everyday vocabulary (band A) covers 66% of the text; the hard 6% is 12 entries — all of them below.
A 65.9% (180 types) B 6.8% (40 types) C 3.8% (21 entries) D 0.8% (5 entries) E 0.0% (0 entries) N 4.9% (7 entries)
Band B — common reading vocabulary
A sample of 24 of 40 — you will meet these often; they are explained only at the fullest help level.
- tub · tubs ×5
- fourteen
- thirteen
- glancing
- tossing
- sleeve
- sixteen
- stirring
- dashed
- kindly
- paused ×2
- eager ×2
- doll ×3
- invisible
- stamped
- bending
- mere
- fifteen
- peered
- torture
- embraced
- satisfaction
- bare
- examined
Band C — recognition checklist
All 21 upper-intermediate words in this chapter. Tick the ones you know; the rest are explained at the fullest help level.
- attentively
- glanced
- flushed
- sob
- conservatory
- scarcely
- angrily
- sly
- discreet
- adjoining
- cuff
- swiftly
- ambush
- brow
- impatient
- blush
- sparkle
- slender
- peculiar
- impulse
- whisper
Band D — advanced (5 entries)
- inaudibly
- too quietly to hear
- flowerpots
- a pot for plants
- solemnity
- grave seriousness
- muttering ×2
- to speak low in the throat
- clasped
- to hold tight in the arms
Band E — rare & archaic (0 entries)
False friends — common words wearing old senses (1)
- peculiar
- its own; particular — the old sense here
Names (5)
- borís ×9
- Borís Drubetskóy, the ambitious young officer
- natásha ×10
- Natásha Rostóva, the novel's radiant heroine
- só-o-onya
- Sónya — called out long
- sónya ×8
- Sónya, the Rostóvs' gentle, devoted cousin
- nicholas ×4
- Nicholas Rostóv, the eldest Rostóv son