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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 APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
againnounUS /again/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
air
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading It was an austere landscape, grave with elm and ash and pine.
anchoragenounUS /ˈæŋkərɪdʒ/
a place where a ship can anchor
From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
applenounUS /apple/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
APPLE-LAND
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
apples
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
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ash
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austere
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From this reading It was an austere landscape, grave with elm and ash and pine.
bands
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bird-hawk
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bite
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
buckwheat
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
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byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
caught
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clustered
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
crickets
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dainty
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elm
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From this reading It was an austere landscape, grave with elm and ash and pine.
faint
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field
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
floated
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
ForprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
golden
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
grave
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From this reading It was an austere landscape, grave with elm and ash and pine.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
high
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
houses
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
invisible
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
keen
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
kept
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From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
landscape
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From this reading It was an austere landscape, grave with elm and ash and pine.
made
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Meadow-larks
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meadows
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
music
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negroid
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
note
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
numbed
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ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
Once
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
orchards
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
piles
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
pine
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From this reading It was an austere landscape, grave with elm and ash and pine.
pumpkins
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
red
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
ricks
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
scattered
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
sight
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
sky
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
smudged
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
snipe
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
some
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From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
song-sparrows
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space
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
spacious
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
standingnounUS /ˈstanding/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
straggling
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strucknounUS /struck/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
Summer
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sunshine
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
survivors
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thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
there
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thinadjectiveUS /θɪn/
Having little thickness or extent.
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trees
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
twice
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underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
up
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uspronounUS /ʌs/
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
warbling
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From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
warmth
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From this reading For a space, a field of buckwheat standing in ricks struck a smudged negroid note, but there was warmth in the apple orchards which clustered about the scattered houses, with piles of golden pumpkins and red apples under the trees.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Once or twice we caught sight of the dainty snipe in the meadows, and high over the woods a bird-hawk floated, as by some invisible anchorage, in the sky.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Meadow-larks and song-sparrows kept up a faint warbling about us, but the crickets, which yesterday had here and there made a thin music, as of straggling bands of survivors of the Summer, were numbed into silence again.
windswept
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
wintry
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From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading APPLE-LAND It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
woods
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yesterday
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