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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 Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
Adolf
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
anxiety
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From this reading There was Streuss—stern, and desperate with anxiety.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
beady
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
behindprepositionUS /bɪˈhaɪnd/
at or toward the back of something
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
breathing
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
brokennounUS /broken/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
Certainly
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
clothes
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
coming
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
criminal
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
desperate
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From this reading There was Streuss—stern, and desperate with anxiety.
door
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
entered
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
eyes
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
fixed
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
flushed
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
forged
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
furtive
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
gathering
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
gleam
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
guilt
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
habitual
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
heavily
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
Hotel
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
Kahn
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
Lassen
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
Laverick
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
leaving
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
man
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
mien
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
Milan
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
Morrison
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
Morrison's
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
ordernounUS /order/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
out
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
room
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
shadownounUS /ˈʃæd.oʊ/
A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
shining
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
shoulders
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
slouched
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
stern
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From this reading There was Streuss—stern, and desperate with anxiety.
strange
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
Streuss
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From this reading There was Streuss—stern, and desperate with anxiety.
strolled
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From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
sunken
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
terrifiedadjectiveUS /ˈterəfaɪd/
extremely frightened
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
There
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
ugly
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
waited
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From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Certainly it was a strange little gathering that waited in Morrison’s room for the coming of Laverick.
watching
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From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading There was Adolf Kahn, the man who had strolled out from the Milan Hotel as Laverick had entered it, leaving the forged order behind him.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading There was Lassen—flushed, ugly, breathing heavily, and watching the door with fixed, beady eyes.
workman
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From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
wornverbUS /wɔːrn/
Damaged or thinned by continuous use.
From this reading There was Morrison himself, in the clothes of a workman, worn to a shadow, with the furtive gleam of terrified guilt shining in his sunken eyes, and the slouched shoulders and broken mien of the habitual criminal.
