Addie
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From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
past form of “allow” — make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
at all times; all the time and on every occasion
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
can't
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From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
circusnounUS /ˈsɜːrkəs/
a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
Edna
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From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
everydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
fortunesnounUS /ˈfɔːrtʃənz/
plural of “fortune” — an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
plural of “girl” — a young female
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
the act of departing
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
destroyed or killed
From this reading “Hasn’t the circus gone?”
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
Hasn't
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From this reading “Hasn’t the circus gone?”
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
immediately past
From this reading “Yes; went last night.”
location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
creative writing of recognized artistic value
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
a written account of what transpired at a meeting
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading “Yes; went last night.”
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
olderadjectiveUS /ˈoʊldər/
advanced in years; (“aged” is pronounced as two syllables)
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
recitation-rooms
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From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
small or little relative to something else
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
SPHINXnounUS /sfɪŋks/
an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
From this reading THE SPHINX.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE SPHINX.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading “And now we can’t have our fortunes told!”
inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading “Yes; went last night.”
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords
From this reading The morning after the circus had left the town, as the older girls were going into one of the smaller recitation-rooms to the English literature class, Edna whispered to Addie in the five minutes that were always allowed on every change of room:
an affirmative
From this reading “Yes; went last night.”
