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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 At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
admiration
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
advance
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
all
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
anchoragenounUS /ˈæŋkərɪdʒ/
a place where a ship can anchor
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
ashore
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
beckoned
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
black
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
blended
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
bloodnounUS /blood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
Bounty
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
came
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
Christian
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
crewnounUS /crew/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
descendant
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
direct
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
disappearednounUS /ˈdisappeared/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
enabled
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
English
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
eyes
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
fanned
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
fellow
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
fighting
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
gentle-voiced
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
hardness
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
HepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
Islander
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
Joan's
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
John
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
ketch
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
later
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
learned
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
livelihood
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
lured
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
Malaita
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
mutineersnounUS /ˈmutineers/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
Norfolk
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
original
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
out
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
ran
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
Romance
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From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
run
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading And Romance lured and beckoned before Joan's eyes when she learned he was Christian Young, a Norfolk Islander, but a direct descendant of John Young, one of the original _Bounty_ mutineers.
Sheldon
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
showed
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
single-handed
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
skin
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
skippernounUS /ˈskɪpər/
the captain of a small ship or boat
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
small
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
soft
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
soft-spoken
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
Solomons
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
sunset
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From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
Tahitian
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
tawny
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From this reading The blended Tahitian and English blood showed in his soft eyes and tawny skin; but the English hardness seemed to have disappeared.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
there
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading At sunset a small ketch fanned in to anchorage, and a little later the skipper came ashore.
toldnounUS /told/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
twenty
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
won
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
wring
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From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
YetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons.
young
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From this reading He was a soft-spoken, gentle-voiced young fellow of twenty, but he won Joan's admiration in advance when Sheldon told her that he ran the ketch all alone with a black crew from Malaita.
