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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
air
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
alive
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
always
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
becauseconjunctionUS /bɪˈkɔːz/
for the reason that
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
BILLY
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
bitter
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
BothdeterminerUS /boʊθ/
the two together, not just one
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
canmodal verbUS /kæn/
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
committing
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
cross
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
despair
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
destroyed
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
door-step
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
dreadfuladjectiveUS /ˈdrɛdfəl/
extremely frightening or unpleasant
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
feel
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
foul
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
full
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
ghosts
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
habit
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
haunted
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
homes
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
horrible
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
horrors
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
houses
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
husbands
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
ill
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
Jesse
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
Kate's
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
knownounUS /know/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
less
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
madness
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
more
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
murder
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
nagging
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
Narrative
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
O'FLYNN
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
other
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
paper
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
people
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
place
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
rooms
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
said
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
sensitive
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
shadows
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
soon
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
souls
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
speech
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
spite
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
stay
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
strife
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
suicide
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
taken
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From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
talked
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
terribly
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
terrifiedadjectiveUS /ˈterəfaɪd/
extremely frightened
From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
There
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading As to the houses where horrors have taken place--despair, madness, murder, suicide--these are always haunted, and sensitive people are terrified by ghosts.
Things
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
thinknounUS /think/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
thoughts
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From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading BILLY O'FLYNN _Kate's Narrative_ Both Jesse and I have a habit of committing our thoughts to paper and not to speech.
very
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From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
whereconjunctionUS /wer/
in or at the place that
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
whereasconjunctionUS /weˈræz/
in contrast with the fact that
From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading There are houses where I feel ill as soon as I cross the door-step, because the very air of the rooms is foul with the spite, the nagging, the strife of bitter souls.
wives
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
written
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From this reading Things written can be destroyed, whereas things said stay terribly alive.
wrote
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From this reading I think if other husbands and wives I know of wrote more and talked less, their homes would not feel so dreadful, so full of horrible shadows.
