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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 The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
adventure
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afterglow
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all
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allured
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
amply
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
Ant
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From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
bare
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bothdeterminerUS /boʊθ/
the two together, not just one
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
boy's
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buffalo
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Color
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colors
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confronted
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dawn
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delightfully
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differentnounUS /ˈdifferent/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
dollar
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doubt
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dry
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due
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earth
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endless
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entirelynounUS /ˈentirely/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
explore
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From this reading I longed to explore.
extravagant
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fact
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From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
far
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
felt
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
gorgeous
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grass
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Grasshopper
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From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
headlands
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
hills
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home
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horseman
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IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
illogical
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Indian
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Iowa
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
James
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
lakes
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
longed
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From this reading I longed to explore.
marvellous
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
mepronounUS /miː/
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
meals
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
Minnesota
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
new
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
old
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
perception
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
phantomnounUS /ˈfæn.təm/
A ghost or apparition; a figment of the imagination or a hidden dweller.
From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
recklessly
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From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
remains
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From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
repaid
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
route
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
shifting
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
shortadjectiveUS /ʃɔrt/
brief or direct in expression
From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
sky
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
stretches
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
subtly
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
suggestive
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
sunset
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
thirst
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From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
ticket
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
trip
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From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
trod
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
truancy
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From this reading Color it as I may, the fact of my truancy remains.
up
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
used
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
valley
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From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
violet
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The valley of the James allured me, and though my ticket and my meals along the route had used up my last dollar, I felt amply repaid as I trod this new earth and confronted this new sky--for both earth and sky were to my perception subtly different from those of Iowa and Minnesota.
widely
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From this reading The endless stretches of short, dry grass, the gorgeous colors of the dawn, the marvellous, shifting, phantom lakes and headlands, the violet sunset afterglow,--all were widely different from our old home, and the far, bare hills were delightfully suggestive of the horseman, the Indian and the buffalo.
WithoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading The Grasshopper and the Ant Without a doubt this trip, so illogical and so recklessly extravagant, was due entirely to a boy's thirst for adventure.
