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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 Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
afire
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And, sometimes spontaneous combustion follows.
Annan
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
Apropos
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
author
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
charging
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
Coltfoot
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
combustion
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From this reading And, sometimes spontaneous combustion follows.
commercial
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
Destiny
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
directions
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
dust-bin
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
dust-pan
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
elements
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
explosionnounUS /ɪkˈsploʊʒən/
a sudden violent burst of sound or force
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
firecracker
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
follows
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From this reading And, sometimes spontaneous combustion follows.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
hatched
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
heap
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
house-cleaning
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
jumping-off
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
known
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
Lady
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
literary
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
made
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
manufacture
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
Materialistic
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From this reading Materialistic sweepings.
mental
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
moment
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
objection
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
Old
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
out
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
place
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
popularly
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
psychological
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
saying
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
secreting
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
seemednounUS /seemed/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
set
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
sometimes
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From this reading And, sometimes spontaneous combustion follows.
spontaneous
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From this reading And, sometimes spontaneous combustion follows.
stories
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From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
sweepings
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From this reading Materialistic sweepings.
swept
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
ThatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
together
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
uncombined
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
usually
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From this reading That mental jumping-off place, popularly known as “the psychological moment,” is usually hatched out of the dust-pan of Destiny.
various
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From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Apropos of Annan and his stories, Coltfoot had made this objection, saying that the literary explosion never seemed to be spontaneous, and charging the author with secreting in the heap a firecracker of commercial manufacture.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Old Lady Destiny, house-cleaning, swept together, from various directions, elements which, uncombined, would not have set the dust-bin afire.
