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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 The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
black
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
blew
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
blood-tinted
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
cliffs
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
cloak
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
cold
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From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
compare
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
cone
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
conquer
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
crevasses
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
Dark
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
deepening
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
dying
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
evennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
forbidding
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
geometric
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
glacier
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
glowed
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
golden
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
ice-wind
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
immense
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
love
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
mountain
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
Neena
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From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
outward
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
perils
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
ranges
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
reach
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From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
ready
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
repellently
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
round
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
Ryzga
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
Ryzgas
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
sheer
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
shivered
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From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
Sidenote
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
sides
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
sight
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
slept
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
snow-slopes
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
softly
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
steep
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From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
StrangelynounUS /ˈstrangely/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
sun
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
sunset
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
surrounding
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
themselvespronounUS /ðemˈselvz/
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading Neena shivered, even though the surrounding cold could not reach her.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
towered
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From this reading Strangely it towered among the cliffs and snow-slopes of the surrounding ranges: an immense and repellently geometric cone, black, its sides blood-tinted by the dying sun.
twilightnounUS /ˈtwaɪlaɪt/
the dim light before night or sunrise
From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
Var's
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
wake
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From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
warming
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From this reading The ice-wind blew from the glacier, but Var's love was round her as a warming cloak, a cloak that glowed softly golden in the deepening twilight, even as her love was about him.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading [Sidenote: _Dark was the Ryzga mountain and forbidding; steep were its cliffs and sheer its crevasses.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
withinprepositionUS /wɪˈðɪn/
inside; before a period of time has passed
From this reading But its outward perils could not compare with the Ryzgas themselves, who slept within, ready to wake and conquer...._] At sunset they were in sight of the Ryzga mountain.
