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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 Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
AboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
Amara's
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From this reading This was Amara's great arena.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
arena
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From this reading This was Amara's great arena.
beasts
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
bloodnounUS /blood/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
blood-lusting
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
breed
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
brown
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
chieftain
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
churned
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
court
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
cries
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
dark
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
dark-faced
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
deep
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
feet
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
floored
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
forefront
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
full
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading This was Amara's great arena.
herenounUS /here/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
horde
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
like
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
Malya
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
men
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
men's
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
night
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From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
now
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
old
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
oval
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
packed
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
pitnounUS /pɪt/
A large hole in the ground, or an abyss of darkness and peril.
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
power
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
primeval
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
raiders
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
rim
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
ringing
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
rose
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From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
sand
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
sat
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
savage
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
screams
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
seats
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From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
slaughter
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
stained
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
star-flecked
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From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
steep-banked
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From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
swelling
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
there
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
ThisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This was Amara's great arena.
ThosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
tiers
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From this reading Above the pit, seats rose into the star-flecked night in steep-banked tiers.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
trodden
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
twenty
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From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
warriors
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This was Amara's great arena.
waves
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From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading Those seats were full, now--packed from pit to rim with the savage, dark-faced _Malya_ breed, a blood-lusting horde whose cries for slaughter rose in great, swelling waves like the screams of primeval beasts.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The oval pit was full twenty feet deep and floored with sand ... sand that here and there was churned and trodden, stained dark brown with men's life blood.
women
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From this reading In the forefront, ringing the rim of the pit, sat the _Malya_ chieftain and his court--the old raiders, the men of power, the warriors and their women.
