Chapter 1 of Diagnosis is here in full — 380 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 1 of Diagnosis is here in full — 380 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire. What comes out? With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance. "What time did you get to bed last night?" "Oh, about ... well, fairly early."
Chapter 1 of Diagnosis is here in full — 380 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
From this reading “With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.”
continuing forever or indefinitely
From this reading “Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.”
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
From this reading “Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.”
plural of “ingredient” — a component of a mixture or compound
From this reading “With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.”
mix together different elements
From this reading “Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.”
electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
From this reading “Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.”
a relationship between two lovers
From this reading “With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.”
a three-sided polygon
From this reading “Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “"What time did you get to bed last night?"”
In this reading “Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.”
as might be expected
In this reading “With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.”
appear or become visible; make a showing
In this reading “What comes out?”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading "Oh, about ... well, fairly early."
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
From this reading What comes out?
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading "Oh, about ... well, fairly early."
continuing forever or indefinitely
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
to certain extent or degree
From this reading "Oh, about ... well, fairly early."
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
a young female
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
destroyed or killed
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
plural of “ingredient” — a component of a mixture or compound
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
immediately past
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
the force of workers available
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
mix together different elements
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading "Oh, about ... well, fairly early."
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading What comes out?
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
a relationship between two lovers
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
carry out
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
a three-sided polygon
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What comes out?
in the company of; together with
From this reading Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading "What time did you get to bed last night?"
Chapter 1 of Diagnosis by Ray Palmer holds 380 sentences, grouped into 76 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 380 sentences of Diagnosis, unabridged, divided into 76 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Diagnosis by Ray Palmer exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 380 sentences, grouped into 76 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 76 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 76 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
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