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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 You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
angrily
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
bestir
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
Biffen
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
book
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
bustlenounUS /ˈbʌsəl/
busy and excited activity
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
chances
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
contemptuous
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
don't
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
Edwin
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
envious
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
eye
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
failure
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
flabby
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
follow
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
foolishly
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
get
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
halfpence
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
Harold
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
imaginenounUS /ˈimagine/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
impiously
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
inert
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
Jasper
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
kicks
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
labour-market
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
leaf
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
made
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
makenounUS /make/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
many
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
men
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
merely
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From this reading They merely provoke you.
Milvain
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Mr
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
mutinous
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
neitherdeterminerUS /ˈniːðər/
not one and not the other of two
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
norconjunctionUS /nɔːr/
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
obstinate
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
other
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
personality
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
place
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
provoke
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From this reading They merely provoke you.
push
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
Reardon
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
rough
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
seem
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
shortadjectiveUS /ʃɔrt/
brief or direct in expression
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
sympathy
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
takenounUS /take/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
themselvespronounUS /ðemˈselvz/
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
TheypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They merely provoke you.
things
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
try
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
tumble
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
understanding
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From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
unfitted
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
weakly
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From this reading They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
welcome
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
wholly
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From this reading But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market.
why
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
world's
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From this reading You are made angrily contemptuous by their failure to get on; why don’t they bestir themselves, push and bustle, welcome kicks so long as halfpence follow, make place in the world’s eye--in short, take a leaf from the book of Mr Jasper Milvain?
youpronounUS /juː/
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading The chances are that you have neither understanding nor sympathy for men such as Edwin Reardon and Harold Biffen.
