Chapter 6 of East of Eden is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of East of Eden is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
She surveyed him with a passing contempt. “Would you kill? I doubt if you’d even use bad language.” He said: “The mind is my weapon.” I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
Chapter 6 of East of Eden is here in full — 402 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
lacking funds
From this reading “I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?””
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
From this reading “She surveyed him with a passing contempt.”
having the power of driving or impelling
From this reading “I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?””
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
From this reading ““Would you kill?”
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
From this reading “I doubt if you’d even use bad language.””
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
From this reading “She surveyed him with a passing contempt.”
past form of “survey” — consider in a comprehensive way
From this reading “She surveyed him with a passing contempt.”
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
From this reading “He said: “The mind is my weapon.””
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 “I doubt if you’d even use bad language.””
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.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
lacking funds
From this reading I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
the state of being unsure of something
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
having the power of driving or impelling
From this reading I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
divisible by two
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
From this reading “Would you kill?
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
past form of “survey” — consider in a comprehensive way
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
the act of using
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
From this reading He said: “The mind is my weapon.”
used to ask for information about something
From this reading I broke in with “What is Spence driving at?”
in the company of; together with
From this reading She surveyed him with a passing contempt.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading “Would you kill?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Would you kill?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I doubt if you’d even use bad language.”
Chapter 6 of East of Eden by Isa Glenn holds 402 sentences, grouped into 81 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 6 holds 402 sentences of East of Eden, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of East of Eden by Isa Glenn exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 402 sentences, grouped into 81 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 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 6 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 439 minutes of reading across 1055 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in East of Eden, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
