[Byjuak]

I plan to read the Gormenghast Trilogy soon but when I first began to read it I noticed there were a great deal of words I didn't understand, let alone ever heard of and they were annoyingly context-sensitive. This causes interruptions I thought I would get ahead of the issue.

If I had a list of the most common words in English particularly prepositions, pronoun, "ordinary" adjectives, nouns and verbs I could compare them to the books and reduce the amount of words I would start looking into manually and see if I need to learn them.

I take it this is a complicated issue but I wouldn't mind hearing other possible solutions.