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Plays : Fifth Series
Plays : Fifth Series

Chapter XX

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Context Illustration Reading 1/81 · 5 lines
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MARY.
[As the door opens].
Here's Cook!
COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.
COOK.
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Plays : Fifth Series

Chapter XX

Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
MARY.
Line 2
[As the door opens].
Line 3
Here's Cook!
Line 4
COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.
Line 5
COOK.
All words in this reading · 16

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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 COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

AsconjunctionUS /æz/

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading [As the door opens].

comfortable

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From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

Cook

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From this reading Here's Cook!

crumpled

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From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

door

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From this reading [As the door opens].

Here's

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From this reading Here's Cook!

MARY

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From this reading MARY.

opens

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sixty

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From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

smile

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From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

stands

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From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

stout

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From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading [As the door opens].

withprepositionUS /wɪð/

in the company of; together with

From this reading COOK stands--sixty, stout, and comfortable with a crumpled smile.