This document contains definitions of words like frivolous, caprice, and emaciate. It provides biographical information on Russian writer Anton Chekhov and summarizes his short story "The Bet". The summary explains that the story is about a 25-year-old lawyer who accepts a bet from a banker that he can spend 15 years in solitary confinement for 2 million rubles. It describes the main characters as the arrogant young lawyer and a spoiled, nervous banker addicted to gambling. The setting is a lodge in Russia in November 1885.