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3
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From this reading BOOK 3.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
adjectives
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
always
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
ambitions
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
America
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
American
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
AsconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
Atlantic
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
attempt
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
became
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
BOOK
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From this reading BOOK 3.
booksnounUS /bʊks/
Bound written or printed works.
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
byword
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
Canada
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
chapter
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
city
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
civilization
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
comments
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
community
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
crudities
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
customs
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
Czechs
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
devoted
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
distinguished
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
drawn
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
embodying
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
Englishmen
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
exhausted
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
fabulous
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
fashion
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
four
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
Frenchmen
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
full-fledged
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
Germans
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
grand
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
Greeks
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
grew
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
Gulf
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
how
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
Huns
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
ideals
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
Italians
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
journeyings
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
languages
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
less
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
made
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
manners
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
mature
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
millionaire
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
miss
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
more
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
most
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
namenounUS /name/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
occupied
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
only
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
out
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
Pacific
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
pay
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
prove
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
rapid
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
rarely
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
remain
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
Republic
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
said
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
scarcely
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
Slavs
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
sometimes
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
suddennounUS /sudden/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
symptomatic
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
toldnounUS /told/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
tour
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
turned
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
usually
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
various
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
visit
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
visitors
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From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Our visitors did not always remain a week,--since their rapid journeyings from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf rarely occupied more than four,--but in the books embodying their mature comments on the manners, customs and crudities of American civilization no less than a chapter was usually devoted to us; and most of the adjectives in their various languages were exhausted in the attempt to prove how symptomatic we were of the ambitions and ideals of the Republic.
wealth
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From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
week
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From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading As the name of our city grew to be more and more a byword for sudden and fabulous wealth, not only were the Huns and the Slavs, the Czechs and the Greeks drawn to us, but it became the fashion for distinguished Englishmen and Frenchmen and sometimes Germans and Italians to pay us a visit when they made the grand tour of America.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading They had been told that they must not miss us; scarcely a week went by in our community--so it was said--in which a full-fledged millionaire was not turned out.
XVIII
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From this reading XVIII.
