Chapter 2 of Six Short Plays is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Six Short Plays is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
AMERICAN. White as a banana. [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus. OFFICIAL. Lass die Frau!
Chapter 2 of Six Short Plays is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/81 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
in an affable manner
From this reading “[To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.”
a native or inhabitant of the United States
From this reading “AMERICAN.”
any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
From this reading “White as a banana.”
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading “[To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.”
a German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman
From this reading “Lass die Frau!”
a girl or young woman who is unmarried
From this reading “Lass die Frau!”
having official authority or sanction
From this reading “[To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.”
rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
From this reading “[To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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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 White as a banana.
in an affable manner
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
a native or inhabitant of the United States
From this reading AMERICAN.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading White as a banana.
any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
From this reading White as a banana.
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
From this reading Lass die Frau!
a person who lacks good judgment
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
a German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman
From this reading Lass die Frau!
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
a girl or young woman who is unmarried
From this reading Lass die Frau!
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
having official authority or sanction
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
a Caucasian
From this reading White as a banana.
in the company of; together with
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading [To the OFFICIAL--affably] Guess you've made kind of a fool of us with your old typhus.
Chapter 2 of Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy holds 409 sentences, grouped into 82 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 2 holds 409 sentences of Six Short Plays, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
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