Chapter 12 of Perseverance Island is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter XII
Chapter 12 of Perseverance Island is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Improve my lamp-tower. Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines. Capture a large turtle. Improve my steel and flint, and build a hut. Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
Chapter 12 of Perseverance Island is here in full — 157 sentences across 32 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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a mark to indicate a direction or relation
From this reading “Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.”
succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
From this reading “Capture a large turtle.”
inquire into
From this reading “Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.”
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
From this reading “Improve my steel and flint, and build a hut.”
to make better
From this reading “Improve my lamp-tower.”
the next day
From this reading “Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.”
get by special effort
From this reading “Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.”
a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
From this reading “Capture a large turtle.”
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.
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In this reading “Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.”
In this reading “Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.”
In this reading “Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
plural of “arrangement” — the thing arranged or agreed to
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
a mark to indicate a direction or relation
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
make by combining materials and parts
From this reading Improve my steel and flint, and build a hut.
succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
From this reading Capture a large turtle.
inquire into
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
From this reading Improve my steel and flint, and build a hut.
temporary military shelter
From this reading Improve my steel and flint, and build a hut.
to make better
From this reading Improve my lamp-tower.
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Improve my lamp-tower.
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading Capture a large turtle.
plural of “line” — a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
engage in
From this reading Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks and lines.
the next day
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Improve my lamp-tower.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
get by special effort
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
From this reading Improve my steel and flint, and build a hut.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explore the island on the morrow.
a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
From this reading Capture a large turtle.
Chapter 12 of Perseverance Island by Douglas Frazar holds 157 sentences, grouped into 32 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 12 holds 157 sentences of Perseverance Island, unabridged, divided into 32 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 12 of Perseverance Island by Douglas Frazar exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 157 sentences, grouped into 32 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 32 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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