Chapter 1 of The Vegetable is here in full — 428 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Vegetable is here in full — 428 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SNOOKS. Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game. They’ll double cross you in a minute. JERRY. Who sold you out?
Chapter 1 of The Vegetable is here in full — 428 sentences across 86 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/85 · 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.
travel across or pass over
From this reading “They’ll double cross you in a minute.”
increase twofold
From this reading “They’ll double cross you in a minute.”
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading “Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.”
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading “JERRY.”
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading “They’ll double cross you in a minute.”
plural of “snook” — large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
From this reading “SNOOKS.”
disposed of to a purchaser
From this reading “Who sold you out?”
successive (without a break)
From this reading “Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.”
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.
In this reading “They’ll double cross you in a minute.”
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 They’ll double cross you in a minute.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
travel across or pass over
From this reading They’ll double cross you in a minute.
increase twofold
From this reading They’ll double cross you in a minute.
a contest with rules to determine a winner
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
offensive term for a person of German descent
From this reading JERRY.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading They’ll double cross you in a minute.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading Who sold you out?
plural of “snook” — large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
From this reading SNOOKS.
disposed of to a purchaser
From this reading Who sold you out?
successive (without a break)
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading They’ll double cross you in a minute.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
which person or people
From this reading Who sold you out?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Aw, you never know who’s straight in this game.
Chapter 1 of The Vegetable by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald holds 428 sentences, grouped into 86 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 1 holds 428 sentences of The Vegetable, unabridged, divided into 86 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Vegetable by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 428 sentences, grouped into 86 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 86 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 86 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
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 170 minutes of reading across 411 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Vegetable section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 5 chapters of The Vegetable to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Vegetable, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
