Chapter 7 of Round Robin is here in full — 233 sentences across 47 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter VII
Chapter 7 of Round Robin is here in full — 233 sentences across 47 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!” Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned. “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!” Norma hated rain. Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
Chapter 7 of Round Robin is here in full — 233 sentences across 47 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “groan” — indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
From this reading “Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.”
a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way
From this reading “Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.”
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
From this reading “THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!””
bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
From this reading “THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!””
plural of “sky” — the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
From this reading “Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.”
travel through water
From this reading ““No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!””
the profession of a teacher
From this reading ““No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!””
a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
From this reading ““No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!””
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.
a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together
In this reading “THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!””
a persisting angry mood
In this reading “Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.”
In this reading “Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.”
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 Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
having undesirable or negative qualities
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
past form of “groan” — indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
treated with dislike or contempt
From this reading Norma hated rain.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
and nothing more
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
held up in the air
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
not any; not one
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!”
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
From this reading THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!”
a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person
From this reading Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
From this reading THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!”
water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
From this reading THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!”
plural of “sky” — the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
travel through water
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
the profession of a teacher
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
a sudden outburst of anger
From this reading Grey skies of New England always put her into a bad temper.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE PATCHWORK QUILT “Oh, rain!”
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!”
Chapter 7 of Round Robin by Abbie Farwell Brown holds 233 sentences, grouped into 47 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 7 holds 233 sentences of Round Robin, unabridged, divided into 47 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Round Robin by Abbie Farwell Brown exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 233 sentences, grouped into 47 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 47 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 384 minutes of reading across 923 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Round Robin, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
