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Read “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories” by Oscar Wilde in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories” begins
It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual.
Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Karlsruhe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her.
It was certainly a wonderful medley of people.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 25 words you will meet most often in “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- sonnet
- merely
- minister
- existence
- tear
- charming
- exclaim
- address
- entirely
- curious
- accordingly
- mere
- slight
- chase
- bear
- shadow
- assure
- heaven
- sin
- corridor
- anxious
- faith
- rush
- tragedy
- sake
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories”
How much of each kind of grammar “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Perfect tenses
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- At/on/in (time) This certainly was very strange, as the door was always locked at night by Mr.
- Phrasal verb with 'up' and preposition The next morning, before Lord Canterville went up to town, Mr.
- Relative clauses with where “Poor, poor Ghost,” she murmured; “have you no place where you can sleep?
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
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About the book
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