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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 WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
absolutely
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
actual
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
all
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
also
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
aspirations
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
boyishness
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
breach
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
bright
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
brilliance
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
changed
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
contact
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
death
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
demolished
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
draws
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
family
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
father
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
generous
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
Griff
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
Griffith
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
Hamlet
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From this reading _Hamlet_.
held
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
high
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
hitherto
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
home
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
lasted
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
light-hearted
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
lost
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
made
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
man
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
Martyn
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
near
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
new
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
old
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From this reading It made my father absolutely an old man; and it also changed Martyn.
ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
promising
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
really
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
responsibility
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
season
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
shock
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
spirit
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
strange
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
suffering
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
then
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
unbroken
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
walk
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
warm-hearted
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From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
WEpronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading WE had really lost our Griffith long before—our bright, generous, warm-hearted, promising Griff, the brilliance of our home; but his actual death made the first breach in a hitherto unbroken family, and was a new and strange shock.
Wherein
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
wont
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From this reading ‘It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.’
youngest
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From this reading His first contact with responsibility, suffering, and death had demolished the light-hearted boyishness which had lasted in the youngest of the family through all his high aspirations.
