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acquaintance
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
acquisition
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
Artist
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From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
attended
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
Bandit
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
Bandit's
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
bank
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
boat
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From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Lionel followed, and sat by the stern.
came
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
danced
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
dash
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From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
emotions
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
England
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
fairies
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
followed
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From this reading Lionel followed, and sat by the stern.
foresees
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
garden-ground
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
Lionel
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From this reading Lionel followed, and sat by the stern.
loosened
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From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
loss
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
melodiously
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From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
mingled
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
moorings
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From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
moral
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
Mr
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
oars
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From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
out
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
pecuniary
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
qualities
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
rowed
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From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
sat
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From this reading Lionel followed, and sat by the stern.
seen
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
slowly
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From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
soon
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
Speculations
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
stepped
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From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
stern
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From this reading Lionel followed, and sat by the stern.
surrounding
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
TheypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
tooknounUS /took/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
turf
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
up
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From this reading Vance loosened the boat from its moorings, stepped in, and took up the oars.
Vance
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From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
villas
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From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading They soon came to the bank of garden-ground surrounding with turf on which fairies might have danced one of those villas never seen out of England.
whistling
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From this reading The Artist rowed on slowly, whistling melodiously in time to the dash of the oars.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Speculations on the moral qualities of the Bandit.--Mr. Vance, with mingled emotions, foresees that the acquisition of the Bandit’s acquaintance may be attended with pecuniary loss.
