Ivanoff (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

159 Pages·2006·1.31 MB·English

by  Anton Chekhov

IVANOFF

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Anton Chekhov

Translation by Marian Fell

PSAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT is a registered trademark of the College
Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE, AP and Advanced Placement are registered
trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT is a
registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book
nor endorses this book, LSATis a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither
sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.
Ivanoff

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT®, SAT®, GRE®, LSAT®,
GMAT®, and AP® English Test Preparation

Anton Chekhov

Translation by Marian Fell

PSAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the
College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are
registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book,
GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated
with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council
which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.
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Contents

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR........................................................................................1
PERSONS REPRESENTED..............................................................................................3
ACT I..............................................................................................................................5
ACT II...........................................................................................................................25
ACT III..........................................................................................................................51
ACT IV..........................................................................................................................77
GLOSSARY...................................................................................................................97

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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on
standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently
assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this
edition of Ivanoff by Anton Chekhov was edited for students who are actively building their
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vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT , SAT , AP (Advanced Placement ), GRE ,
LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations.1

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of
synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in
other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic
words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are “difficult,
and often encountered” in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided
for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language,
and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within
context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not
already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it
has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the
book; Synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary.

Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-online-
dictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected]

The Editor
Webster’s Online Dictionary
www.websters-online-dictionary.org
1 P S A T ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT® is a registered trademark of the
College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are
registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book,
GMAT® is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated
with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT® is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council
which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

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PERSONS %REPRESENTED

NICHOLAS IVANOFF, perpetual member of the Council of Peasant Affairs
ANNA, his wife. Nee Sarah Abramson
MATTHEW SHABELSKI, a count, uncle of Ivanoff
PAUL LEBEDIEFF, President of the Board of the Zemstvo
ZINAIDA, his wife
SASHA, their daughter, twenty years old
LVOFF, a young government doctor
MARTHA BABAKINA, a young widow, owner of an estate and daughter of a
rich merchant
KOSICH, an exciseman
MICHAEL BORKIN, a distant relative of Ivanoff, and manager of his estate
AVDOTIA NAZAROVNA, an old woman
GEORGE, lives with the Lebedieffs
FIRST GUEST
SECOND GUEST
THIRD GUEST
FOURTH GUEST
PETER, a servant of Ivanoff
GABRIEL, a servant of Lebedieff
GUESTS OF BOTH SEXES

SCENE: The play takes place in one of the provinces of central Russia

Thesaurus
distant: (adj) remote, aloof, chill, lives: (n) life, living, estate, existence, transitory, mortal, unstable, finite,
detached, far, reserved, cool, long, earnest living. inconstant, occasional, sporadic.
icy, removed; (adv) afar. merchant: (n) trader, seller, provinces: (n) distance.
ANTONYMS: (adj) close, businessman, shopkeeper, vendor, servant: (n) manservant, domestic,
neighboring, adjacent, friendly, near, retailer, merchandiser, storekeeper, lackey, maid, employee, flunkey,
nearby, warm, pending, intimate, broker, grocer; (n, v) chapman. retainer, boy, footman, flunky,
involved, alert. ANTONYM: (n) buyer. menial. ANTONYMS: (n) master,
exciseman: (n) collector of internal perpetual: (adj) incessant, continual, mistress.
revenue, gauger, gager, constant, endless, eternal, everlasting, widow: (n) woman, relict, widower,
administrative official, tax collector, lasting, ceaseless, immortal, adult female, widow woman, war
internal revenue agent, customhouse continuous, perennial. ANTONYMS: widow, nobbled line; (adj) widowed,
officer, bureaucrat, douanier. (adj) temporary, intermittent, additional; (v) leave behind.

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ACT %I

[The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the
facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad
semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into a garden. On
the right are several garden benches and tables. A lamp is burning on one of
the tables. It is evening. As the curtain rises sounds of the piano and
violoncello are heard.]
[IVANOFF is sitting at a table reading.]
[BORKIN, in top-boots and carrying a gun, comes in from the rear of the
garden. He is a little tipsy. As he sees IVANOFF he comes toward him on
tiptoe, and when he comes opposite him he stops and points the gun at his
face.]
IVANOFF.
[Catches sight of BORKIN. Shudders and jumps to his feet] Misha! What are
you doing? You frightened me! I can't stand your stupid jokes when I am so
nervous as this. And having frightened me, you laugh! [He sits down.]
BORKIN.
[Laughing loudly] There, I am sorry, really. I won't do it again. Indeed I
won't. [Take off his cap] How hot it is! Just think, my dear boy, I have
covered twelve miles in the last three hours. I am worn out. Just feel how my
heart is beating.

Thesaurus
benches: (n) bleachers. lawn: (n) grassplot, field, green, park, Newmarket, boodle, halts, stop,
facade: (n) appearance, outside, face, meadow, grassplat, plot, lea, turfs, stoppages, stopped, stopping, card
front, veneer, pretense, disguise, turves, turf. game, moolah.
surface, guise, semblance, loudly: (adv) vociferously, noisily, tipsy: (adj) tight, intoxicated, soused,
frontispiece. ANTONYMS: (n) loud, clamorously, showily, strongly, blotto, inebriated, fuddled, taut,
interior, substance, rear, genuine. flamboyantly, obstreperously, stringent, loaded, besotted, close.
jumps: (n) fit, nervousness, tension, luridly, boisterously; (adj, adv) forte. tiptoe: (v) tip, tippytoe, creep, patter,
anxiety, jitters. ANTONYMS: (adv) softly, thinly, skirt, skip, tilt, sidle, lean; (adj) alert;
lamp: (n) light, lantern, beacon, silently, piano, pleasantly. (n) quieter. ANTONYM: (v) clump.
headlight, flashbulb, flashgun, table semicircular: (adj) curved, semicircled, violoncello: (n) Cremona, tenor,
lamp, oil lamp, storm lantern; (n, v) crescentic, crescent. bowed stringed instrument, bass,
look; (v) behold. stops: (n) Chicago, Michigan, string.