Chapter 18 of Friend Mac Donald is here in full — 55 sentences across 11 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 18 of Friend Mac Donald is here in full — 55 sentences across 11 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Intellectual Life in Scotland. -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be. -- Comparisons. -- Literary and Scientific Societies. -- Why should not France possess such Societies?
Chapter 18 of Friend Mac Donald is here in full — 55 sentences across 11 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.
the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
From this reading “-- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.”
plural of “comparison” — the act of examining resemblances
From this reading “-- Comparisons.”
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
From this reading “Intellectual Life in Scotland.”
have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill
From this reading “-- Why should not France possess such Societies?”
represented accurately or precisely
From this reading “-- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.”
of or relating to the practice of science
From this reading “-- Literary and Scientific Societies.”
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
From this reading “Intellectual Life in Scotland.”
plural of “society” — an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
From this reading “-- Literary and Scientific Societies.”
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 “Intellectual Life in Scotland.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading -- Literary and Scientific Societies.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
plural of “comparison” — the act of examining resemblances
From this reading -- Comparisons.
a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
From this reading -- Why should not France possess such Societies?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Intellectual Life in Scotland.
of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
From this reading Intellectual Life in Scotland.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
a characteristic state or mode of living
From this reading Intellectual Life in Scotland.
of or relating to or characteristic of literature
From this reading -- Literary and Scientific Societies.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill
From this reading -- Why should not France possess such Societies?
represented accurately or precisely
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
of or relating to the practice of science
From this reading -- Literary and Scientific Societies.
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
From this reading Intellectual Life in Scotland.
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading -- Why should not France possess such Societies?
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
plural of “society” — an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
From this reading -- Literary and Scientific Societies.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading -- Why should not France possess such Societies?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading -- The Climate is not so bad as it is represented to be.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading -- Why should not France possess such Societies?
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