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1884
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From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
abject
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
abroad
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
all
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From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
awful
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
bornnounUS /born/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
cholera
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
city
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
classes
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
criminal
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
demon
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
destroying
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
die
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
dirt
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
disease
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
down
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
dropped
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
educated
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
effect
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
EverydeterminerUS /ˈevəri/
all the members of a group, with none left out
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
fear
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
fell
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
gained
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
heroism
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
horrors
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From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
Humbert
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
kind
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From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
King
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
knows
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From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
lands
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From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
like
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
low
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
more
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
Naples
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Neapolitan
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
neglect
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
never-to-be-forgotten
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
newspapers
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From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
old
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
panic
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
people
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
plague
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
populace
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
precautionsplural nounUS /prɪˈkɔʃənz/
actions taken to prevent danger
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
rapiditynounUS /rəˈpɪdəti/
great speed
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
reigned
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
sanitary
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
scores
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
selfishness
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
story
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From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
streets
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
summer
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From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
superstition
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
supreme
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
teemed
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From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
touch
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
underprepositionUS /ˈʌndər/
below or beneath something; less than
From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
universal
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
unreasoning
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
utter
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
vulgar
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From this reading The never-to-be-forgotten heroism of King Humbert had its effect on the more educated classes, but among the low Neapolitan populace, abject fear, vulgar superstition, and utter selfishness reigned supreme.
walked
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
wepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Every one knows what kind of summer we had in Naples in 1884.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The newspapers of all lands teemed with the story of its horrors.
withering
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
worse
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From this reading The fell disease, born of dirt and criminal neglect of sanitary precautions, gained on the city with awful rapidity, and worse even than the plague was the unreasoning but universal panic.
young
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From this reading The cholera walked abroad like a destroying demon; under its withering touch scores of people, young and old, dropped down in the streets to die.
