A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
BY: ANTON CHEKHOV
Prepared by: Montilla, Kurt Kubain
Cellona, Andrew John
DIFFICULT WORDS:
Rumbling
A low, heavy, continuous sound or series
of sounds
Frolics
Full of fun
Spurt
To gush forth
To expel in a stream
Cobbler
A person who makes or repairs shoes
Bosom
A person’s chest when it is thought of as the
place where secret thoughts and feelings are
kept
Staggering
Very large, shocking, or surprising
Drowsy
Tired and ready to fall asleep
Grim
Unpleasant or shocking to see or think about
Absurd
Extremely silly, foolish, or unreasonable
Lisping
To speak flatteringly, childishly, or with a lisp
Tugging
Topull something with a quick, forceful
movement
Lapel
Eitherone of the two folds of fabric that are
below thw collar on the front of a coat or jacket
Copes
A long enveloping ecclesiastical vestment
Gobble
To swallow or eat greedily
Striding
To walk with very long steps
Shoved
To push (something) with force
Parched
Very dry especially because of hot weather and
no rain
Rye
A hardly annual grass that is widely grown for
grain and as cover crop
Gust
A sensation of taste
Slacken
To become slower or less active
Ochre
An earthly usually red or yellow and often impure
iron ore used as a pigment
Shabby
In a poor condition especially because of age or use
Abates
To become weaker, to decrease in strength
Wringing
To twist and squeeze, to remove water
Grinning
To smile widely
Ant-heap
a mound of soil, leaves, etc, near the entrance of
an ants' nest, carried and deposited there by
the ants while constructing the nest
Rogues
A man who dishonest or immoral
Downpour
Sudden heavy rain
Scurrying
A person’s chest when it is thought of as the
place where secret thoughts and feelings are
kept
Monotonous
Very large, shocking, or surprising
Commune
Tired and ready to fall asleep
Tavern
Unpleasant or shocking to see or think about
Characters of the Story
Fyokla
A six year old beggar girl
Terenty
The tall old man with a thin, pock-marked
face, very long legs, and bare feet, dressed in
a woman’s tattered jacket
Silantly Silitch
A sacristan
Danilka
Brother of Fyokla
Moral Lesson
The moral lesson in the story is that we need
to value what God had created for us and
understand the nature. Because life on earth is
the greatest gift of nature, and it can be found
in several hues and shapes. The beauty of
nature mesmerizes all of us, for without
nature, we would not know the greatest gift of
our existence.