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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 Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
agency
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
arrival
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
assembled
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
away
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From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
back
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
blast
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
blazed
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
blue
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
Borne
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
Davies
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
depths
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
died
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From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
eastern
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
frozen
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
gale
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From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
half-frozen
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
Ice
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
King
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
Lieutenant
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
lodges
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
LongnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
mercury
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
nethermost
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
pole
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
prairies
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From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
rapids
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
remembered
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
RunningnounUS /ˈrunning/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
sheltered
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
Sioux
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
sky
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
solid
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
squad
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
store
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
straight
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
sundogs
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
sunk
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
swept
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From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
swooped
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
trader's
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
troopers
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From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
tubes
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From this reading The mercury in the tubes at the trader's store had sunk to the nethermost depths.
turned
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
valley
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
Water
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From this reading The sundogs blazed in the eastern sky, and even the rapids of the Running Water seemed turned to solid blue.
Wednesday
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From this reading The gale that swept the prairies on Wednesday had died away.
wings
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From this reading Borne on the wings of the blast, straight from the frozen pole, the Ice King had swooped upon the sheltered valley.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Long remembered at the agency and among the lodges of the assembled Sioux was the morning of the arrival of Lieutenant Davies with a squad of half-frozen troopers at his back.
