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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 A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
all
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
answer
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
any
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
Apes
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From this reading “Apes maybe?”
assignment
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
attack
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
Bolts
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
called
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
CaptainnounUS /ˈcaptain/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
completing
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
Conseil
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
Conseil's
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
deserve
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
direction
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
don't
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
else
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
fall
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
forest
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
giving
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
greater
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
halfway
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
hand
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
Land's
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
leg
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
Lightning
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
maybe
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From this reading “Apes maybe?”
meteorites
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
mouth
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
Ned
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
Nemo
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
observationnounUS /ˈobservation/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
ready
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
relevance
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
removed
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
rifles
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
ringdove
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
said
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
second
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
shoulders
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
sky
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
STANDINGnounUS /ˈstanding/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
stared
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
stone
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
Stones
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From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
stoodnounUS /stood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
stopping
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
tasty
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Stones don’t fall from the sky,” Conseil said, “or else they deserve to be called meteorites.”
three
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From this reading We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
UP
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From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
well-polished
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From this reading A second well-polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil’s hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.
WITHOUTprepositionUS /wɪˈθaʊt/
not having, not using, or not accompanied by
From this reading The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its assignment.
