Chapter 5 of Their Son is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of Their Son is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"Hello, there! Is that you?" Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him. He grew pale. All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
Chapter 5 of Their Son is here in full — 415 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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personal knowledge or information about someone or something
From this reading “Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.”
a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
From this reading “All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.”
(usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
From this reading “Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.”
an expression of greeting
From this reading “"Hello, there!”
subdued or brought low in condition or status
From this reading “Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.”
water frozen in the solid state
From this reading “All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.”
without bounds
From this reading “Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.”
expressing extreme contempt
From this reading “Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.”
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 “He grew pale.”
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.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
(usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
inflected form of “grow” — pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
From this reading He grew pale.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He grew pale.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
an expression of greeting
From this reading "Hello, there!
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
subdued or brought low in condition or status
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
water frozen in the solid state
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
without bounds
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Is that you?"
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
very light colored; highly diluted with white
From this reading He grew pale.
on the contrary
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
expressing extreme contempt
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
past form of “seem” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Is that you?"
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Something in the rather scornful familiarity of her greeting infinitely humbled him.
in or at that place or location
From this reading "Hello, there!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
From this reading All the blood in his body seemed flooding his heart, turning to ice there.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Is that you?"
Chapter 5 of Their Son by Eduardo Zamacois holds 415 sentences, grouped into 83 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 5 holds 415 sentences of Their Son, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 5 of Their Son by Eduardo Zamacois exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 415 sentences, grouped into 83 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 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 5 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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Words and structures a reader meets early in Their Son, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
