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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 next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
aching
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
amidprepositionUS /əˈmɪd/
in the middle of; surrounded by
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
Archibald
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
attic
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
bleakness
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
book
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
closed
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From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
colour
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
comes
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
decoration
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
departed
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
emotion
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From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
evening
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
fall
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From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
father
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From this reading The visit of his father had tried him severely.
feet
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The visit of his father had tried him severely.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The visit of his father had tried him severely.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
isolated
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
knee
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From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
letauxiliary verbUS /let/
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
lives
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
loneliness
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
man
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
Morgan
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
new
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
nextnounUS /next/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
note
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
now
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
only
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
planted
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
pretending
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
reading
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
rug
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
sat
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
sedulously
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
sense
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
severely
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From this reading The visit of his father had tried him severely.
shaken
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From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
shattered
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From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
somewhat
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From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
startling
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
storm
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From this reading He had been shaken by a storm of emotion, and it had left him somewhat shattered.
strucknounUS /struck/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
thus
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From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
tried
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From this reading The visit of his father had tried him severely.
Turkey
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From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
visit
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From this reading The visit of his father had tried him severely.
volume
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From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
wearily
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From this reading At last he closed the volume and let it fall wearily on his knee.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The next evening Morgan sat pretending to be reading a book, his feet sedulously planted on a new Turkey rug, which struck a startling note of colour and decoration amid the bleakness of the attic.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading And now that Archibald had departed, an aching sense of loneliness had come to him such as only comes to the man who lives thus isolated.
