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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 STRANGE DEPARTURE.
almost
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From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
away
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
breast
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
broad
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
broughtnounUS /ˈbrought/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
clungnounUS /clung/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
coldly
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
crimson
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
darkness
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
DEPARTURE
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From this reading A STRANGE DEPARTURE.
destructiveness
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
dislodgednounUS /ˈdislodged/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
enthroned
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
force
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
gainst
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
gash
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
gray
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
ground
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
hearnounUS /hear/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
heaven
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
home
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
Ideal
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
knotted
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
moan
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
more
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
morrow
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
old
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
phenomenal
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
placidity
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From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
rising
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
roots
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
rose
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
scarcely
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
scene
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From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
see
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
seeming
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
sky
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
sobbingly
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
storm
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
STRANGE
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From this reading A STRANGE DEPARTURE.
summer
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From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
sweetness
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From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
threatening
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From this reading The old home rose coldly gray ’gainst the darkness of a threatening sky.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Ideal summer seemed to have enthroned herself never more to be dislodged, but the morrow brought a storm, phenomenal in its force and destructiveness.
trees
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
undisturbed
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
unearthly
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From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
vantage
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
west
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
wound
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From this reading At first one could see, away to the west, but a broad gash of crimson, a seeming wound in the breast of heaven, and could scarcely hear the rising wind moan sobbingly through the trees that with knotted roots clung undisturbed to their vantage ground.
yesterday
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From this reading But yesterday the scene had been one of almost unearthly sweetness and placidity.
