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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 great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
aboveprepositionUS /əˈbʌv/
higher than, or over, something
From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
Abraham
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
acquaintances
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
addition
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
banking-house
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
beginningnounUS /ˈbeginning/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
Bendibow
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
Brothers
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
business
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
casual
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
cautious
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
century
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
certain
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
character
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
circumstances
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
commonplace
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
convenient
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
customers
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
day
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
death
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
decade
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
eighteenth
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
enterprise
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
evernounUS /ever/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
explained
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
fairly
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
goldsmith's
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
hard-headed
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
hard-hearted
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
imagination
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
interest
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
intervention
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
keen
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
kept
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
kinds
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
lately
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
lending
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
like
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
London
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
lurked
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
makenounUS /make/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
man
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
many
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
meaning
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
means
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
mentioned
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
merely
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
modest
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
money
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
Mr
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
namely
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
neighborhood
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
NeverthelessadverbUS /ˌnevərðəˈles/
in spite of what has just been said
From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
nobodypronounUS /ˈnoʊbɑːdiː/
no person; not anyone
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
opinion
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
other
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
others
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
own
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
perhaps
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
personal
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
profits
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
property
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
qualities
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
real
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
remunerative
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
represented
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
second
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From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
security
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
shop
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
supplemented
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
there
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
TheypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
things
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From this reading The great banking-house of Bendibow Brothers, like many other great things, had a modest beginning.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
tillprepositionUS /tɪl/
up to a particular time
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
ToparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading To his customers and casual acquaintances he was merely a commonplace, keen, cautious, hard-headed and hard-hearted man of business; and, perhaps, till as lately as the second decade of the century, this might have fairly represented his own opinion of himself.
two
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From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
unsuspected
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
use
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Nevertheless, there lurked in his character, in addition to the qualities above mentioned, two others which are by no means commonplace, namely, imagination and enterprise.
Whitechapel
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From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading At the beginning of the eighteenth century there was a certain Mr. Abraham Bendibow in London, who kept a goldsmith’s shop in the neighborhood of Whitechapel, and supplemented the profits of that business by lending money at remunerative interest, on the security of certain kinds of personal property.
word
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From this reading They might have lurked there unsuspected till the day of his death, but for the intervention of circumstances--to make use of a convenient word of which nobody has ever explained the real meaning.
