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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 Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
ability
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
active
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
AddednounUS /added/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
age
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
also
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
AlthoughnounUS /ˈalthough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
American
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading As an individual she was lovely.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
AsconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading As an individual she was lovely.
beautifully
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
betweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
bodynounUS /body/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
business
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
catch
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
clothes
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
comenounUS /come/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
confidencenounUS /ˈconfidence/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
daughter
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
David
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
defeat
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
distinction
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
duringprepositionUS /ˈdʊrɪŋ/
all through a period, or at some point within it
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
early
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
enter
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
expensive
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
experience
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
face
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
father
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
finenounUS /fine/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
girl
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
handed
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
high
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
how
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
individual
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From this reading As an individual she was lovely.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
king
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
knew
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
knowledge
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
known
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
leastnounUS /least/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
leave
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
looknounUS /look/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
lovely
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From this reading As an individual she was lovely.
made
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
Margaret
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
meet
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
merely
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
mindnounUS /mind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
natural
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
obscurity
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
Ormsby
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
out
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
plough
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
position
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
poverty
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
product
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
quietly
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
rather
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
room
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
see
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
sent
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading As an individual she was lovely.
social
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
stand
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
strong
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
taught
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
things
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
times
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From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
trained
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
up
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
Vassar
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
vigorous
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From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American social life in our times.
wealth
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From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
well
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From this reading The girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an active mind.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Although her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience.
withoutprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.
