Chapter 2 of Miscellaneous Aphorisms is here in full — 425 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of Miscellaneous Aphorisms is here in full — 425 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. What do you call a bad woman? Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. One can resist everything except temptation.
Chapter 2 of Miscellaneous Aphorisms is here in full — 425 sentences across 85 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
third-person singular of “admire” — feel admiration for
From this reading “The sort of man who admires innocence.”
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading “What do you call a bad man?”
apart from; not including
From this reading “One can resist everything except temptation.”
plural of “get” — a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
From this reading “Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.”
the quality of innocent naivete
From this reading “The sort of man who admires innocence.”
elude, especially in a baffling way
From this reading “One can resist everything except temptation.”
something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
From this reading “One can resist everything except temptation.”
depleted of strength or energy
From this reading “Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.”
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 “Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.”
In this reading “What do you call a bad man?”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
third-person singular of “admire” — feel admiration for
From this reading The sort of man who admires innocence.
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading One can resist everything except temptation.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
all things; all of a situation
From this reading One can resist everything except temptation.
apart from; not including
From this reading One can resist everything except temptation.
plural of “get” — a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
From this reading Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
the quality of innocent naivete
From this reading The sort of man who admires innocence.
an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The sort of man who admires innocence.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading One can resist everything except temptation.
elude, especially in a baffling way
From this reading One can resist everything except temptation.
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
From this reading The sort of man who admires innocence.
something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
From this reading One can resist everything except temptation.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The sort of man who admires innocence.
depleted of strength or energy
From this reading Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
which person or people
From this reading The sort of man who admires innocence.
an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading What do you call a bad woman?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading What do you call a bad man?
Chapter 2 of Miscellaneous Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde holds 425 sentences, grouped into 85 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 2 holds 425 sentences of Miscellaneous Aphorisms, unabridged, divided into 85 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Miscellaneous Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 425 sentences, grouped into 85 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 85 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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