Chapter 1 of How He Lied to Her Husband is here in full — 740 sentences across 148 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of How He Lied to Her Husband is here in full — 740 sentences across 148 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
I have got growing pains, I think. SHE. Growing pains! HE. The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
Chapter 1 of How He Lied to Her Husband is here in full — 740 sentences across 148 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 92/148 · 5 reading units · Lines 456–460
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the childhood of a boy
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
From this reading “I have got growing pains, I think.”
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
under normal conditions
From this reading “The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.”
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the childhood of a boy
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
inflected form of “get” — come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading I have got growing pains, I think.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
From this reading I have got growing pains, I think.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading I have got growing pains, I think.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading HE.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I have got growing pains, I think.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
From this reading I have got growing pains, I think.
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading SHE.
plural of “take” — the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading I have got growing pains, I think.
under normal conditions
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
a late time of life
From this reading The process of growing from romantic boyhood into cynical maturity usually takes fifteen years.
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