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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 There was a rosy light over all the earth.
air
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
all
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From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
apples
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
autumn
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
belated
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
blackberry
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
bowled
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
branches
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
broke
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From this reading The day broke tranquilly.
children
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
cornlands
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
day
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From this reading The day broke tranquilly.
down
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
eachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
early
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
ears
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
earth
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From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
few
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
fields
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
filled
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
flowers
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
fruits
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
gave
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
going
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
good-day
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
ground
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
InprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
infants
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
labor
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
lanes
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
light
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From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
millions
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
orchards
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
other
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
pullednounUS /pulled/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
quiet
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
reaping
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
ripening
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
roads
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
rosy
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From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
sheaves
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
smell
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From this reading The smell of millions of ripening autumn fruits filled the air from the orchards.
sought
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
stoodnounUS /stood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
stray
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
stubble
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The day broke tranquilly.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
There
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From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
tranquilly
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From this reading The day broke tranquilly.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was a rosy light over all the earth.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
whilstconjunctionUS /waɪlst/
an old and formal word for “while”
From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
wild
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From this reading In the cornlands a few belated sheaves stood alone on the reaping ground, while children sought stray ears that might still be left among the wild flowers and the stubble.
women
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From this reading The women going to their labor in the fields, gave each other a quiet good-day; whilst their infants pulled down the blackberry branches in the lanes or bowled the early apples down the roads.
