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Chapter VIII

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"That's a fact."
Trigger took another sip.
She set down her glass.
"There's something else," she said reluctantly.
"Yes?"
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LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Legacy

Chapter VIII

Reading 1/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
"That's a fact."
Line 2
Trigger took another sip.
Line 3
She set down her glass.
Line 4
"There's something else," she said reluctantly.
Line 5
"Yes?"

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

Another noun US /ˈanother/

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading “Trigger took another sip.”

Something pronoun US /ˈsʌmθɪŋ/

a thing, without saying which

From this reading “"There's something else," she said reluctantly.”

Took noun US /took/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “Trigger took another sip.”

All words in this reading · 18

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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's a fact."

anothernounUS /ˈanother/

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Trigger took another sip.

down

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From this reading She set down her glass.

else

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From this reading "There's something else," she said reluctantly.

fact

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From this reading "That's a fact."

glass

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From this reading She set down her glass.

herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading She set down her glass.

reluctantly

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From this reading "There's something else," she said reluctantly.

said

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From this reading "There's something else," she said reluctantly.

set

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From this reading She set down her glass.

ShepronounUS /ʃiː/

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading She set down her glass.

sip

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From this reading Trigger took another sip.

somethingpronounUS /ˈsʌmθɪŋ/

a thing, without saying which

From this reading "There's something else," she said reluctantly.

That's

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From this reading "That's a fact."

There's

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From this reading "There's something else," she said reluctantly.

tooknounUS /took/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Trigger took another sip.

Trigger

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From this reading Trigger took another sip.

Yes

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From this reading "Yes?"