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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 To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
abroad
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
affair
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
againnounUS /again/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
air
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
allied
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
anothernounUS /ˈanother/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
anythingpronounUS /ˈeniθɪŋ/
any thing at all
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
arrived
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
askednounUS /asked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
asking
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
assurance
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
authorities
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
bewilderingly
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
beyondprepositionUS /bɪˈɑːnd/
on the far side of; further than
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
bodies
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
brood
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
buried
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From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
business-like
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
called
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
casual
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
causes
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From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
changes
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
chaotic
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
coming
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
concerned
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
devastating
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
distance
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
divorces
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
doauxiliary verbUS /duː/
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
double
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
embezzlements
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
environs
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
event
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
events
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From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
everythingpronounUS /ˈevriθɪŋ/
all things; all of a situation
From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
finance
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
fires
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
forget
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From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
forgottenadjectiveUS /fərˈɡɑːt.n̩/
Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
formal
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
give
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
glanced
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
high
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
Hollister
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
immediate
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
issuednounUS /issued/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
item
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
jurisdiction
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
knew
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
leastnounUS /least/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
lightly
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From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
logical
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From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
man
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From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
material
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
men
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
merely
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
more
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
murder
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
neitherdeterminerUS /ˈniːðər/
not one and not the other of two
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
newspapers
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
norconjunctionUS /nɔːr/
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
obscurely
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From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
Once
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
ordernounUS /order/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
orders
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
outsidenounUS /ˈoutside/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
pass
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From this reading But one man at least could not quickly forget or pass it over lightly.
penetrating
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
people
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
politics
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
provided
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
questions
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
quickly
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
reason
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
remote
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
removed
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
rhyme
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
scandals
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
search
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
security
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
sent
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
sequence
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
sit
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
slayer
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
slowly
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
solitude
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
testimony
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
there
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
Toba
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
transpired
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From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
two
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
unanswerable
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.
untilprepositionUS /ənˈtɪl/
up to a particular time
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
valley
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From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
verging
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From this reading He was left with nothing to do but brood, to sit asking unanswerable questions of a world and a life that for him was slowly and bewilderingly verging upon the chaotic, in which there was no order, no security, no assurance of anything but devastating changes that had neither rhyme nor reason in their sequence.
violentnounUS /ˈviolent/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Once the authorities--coming from a great distance, penetrating the solitude of the valley with a casual, business-like air--arrived, asked questions, issued orders, sent two men abroad in search of the slayer, and removed the bodies to another jurisdiction, Hollister had nothing more to do with that until he should be called again to give formal testimony.
world
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From this reading To the world outside the immediate environs of the Toba, beyond those who knew the people concerned, that double murder was merely another violent affair which provided material for newspapers, a remote event allied to fires, divorces, embezzlements, politics, and scandals in high finance,--another item to be glanced quickly over and as quickly forgotten.
