The Bet
by: Anton Checkhov
Vocabulary:
1.) Frivolous
Quote: "The banker, spoiled and frivolous, with millions beyond his reckoning, was delighted at the bet." (pg. 108)
Definition: carefree
Synonym: unconcerned
Sentence: The frivolous little boy walked across the street without looking both ways.
2.) Compulsory
Quote: "Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. (pg 109)
Definition: required
Synonym: mandatory
Sentence: The girl needed her dress by today for it was compulsory for an important event.
3.) Indiscriminately
Quote: "In the last two years of bias confinement the prisoner read an immense quantity of books quite discriminately." (pg. 111)
Definition: lacking in care, judgement
Synonym: thoughtless
Sentence: The group of representatives indiscriminately talked about the candidates.
4.) Emaciated
Quote: "His hair was already streaked with silver, and seeing his emaciated, aged-looking face, no one would have believed that he was only forty." (pg. 113)
Definition: bony
Synonym: skeletal
Sentence: The emaciated patient was laying in his bed, helplessly.
5.) Illusory
Quote: "It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage." (pg. 115)
Definition: causing illusion, deceptive
Synonym: misleading
Sentence: The story was illusory, causing the students to have to read it over again.
6.) Posterity
Quote: "You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe." (pg. 115)
Definition: future generations
Synonym: breed, children
Sentence:
Quote: "The banker, spoiled and frivolous, with millions beyond his reckoning, was delighted at the bet." (pg. 108)
Definition: carefree
Synonym: unconcerned
Sentence: The frivolous little boy walked across the street without looking both ways.
2.) Compulsory
Quote: "Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. (pg 109)
Definition: required
Synonym: mandatory
Sentence: The girl needed her dress by today for it was compulsory for an important event.
3.) Indiscriminately
Quote: "In the last two years of bias confinement the prisoner read an immense quantity of books quite discriminately." (pg. 111)
Definition: lacking in care, judgement
Synonym: thoughtless
Sentence: The group of representatives indiscriminately talked about the candidates.
4.) Emaciated
Quote: "His hair was already streaked with silver, and seeing his emaciated, aged-looking face, no one would have believed that he was only forty." (pg. 113)
Definition: bony
Synonym: skeletal
Sentence: The emaciated patient was laying in his bed, helplessly.
5.) Illusory
Quote: "It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage." (pg. 115)
Definition: causing illusion, deceptive
Synonym: misleading
Sentence: The story was illusory, causing the students to have to read it over again.
6.) Posterity
Quote: "You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe." (pg. 115)
Definition: future generations
Synonym: breed, children
Sentence: