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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 That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
Alabama
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
allowed
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
Americans
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
atmosphere
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From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
awakening
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
Bear
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
brothers
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
ceux
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
clumsyadjectiveUS /ˈklʌmzi/
awkward in movement or handling things
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
contention
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From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
cry
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
destruction
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
energetic
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
equipped
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
events
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From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
France
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From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
genereux
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
heavy
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
Home
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
ill-fated
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
itselfpronounUS /ˌɪtˈself/
used when the thing doing the action is also its object
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
leave
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
Les
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
n'ont
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
nations
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From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
nerves
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From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
North
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
Paris
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
paw
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
plus
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
purpose
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
put
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
qui
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
raised
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
rien
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
roused
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
shaken
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From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
shores
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
sleeping
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
sont
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
speech
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From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
spirit
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From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
strife
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From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
stupendous
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From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
ThatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
themselvespronounUS /ðemˈselvz/
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
There
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From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
thoughtnounUS /thought/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The events in France, stupendous in themselves, seemed to have shaken the nerves of nations.
toujours
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From this reading Home "Les plus genereux sont toujours ceux qui n'ont rien."
Treaty
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From this reading That great sleeping Bear of the North roused itself, and in its clumsy awakening put a heavy paw through the Treaty of Paris.
uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading The Americans--our brothers in thought, speech and energetic purpose--raised a great cry against us in that we had allowed the ill-fated Alabama to leave our shores equipped for destruction.
world
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From this reading There was a spirit of strife and contention in the atmosphere of the world.
