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What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril? Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home? _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship. There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin. Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
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an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “_We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.”
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “_We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.”
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.”
but in spite of that
From this reading “Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
to be able to, or to be allowed to
From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
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From this reading Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
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From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
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From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
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From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading Even more important--can a girl's love keep him home?
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From this reading Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
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From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
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From this reading Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
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From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
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From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
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From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading _We watched in silence as grim-faced, uniformed guards carried the small bronze casket down from the space ship.
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There were thousands of us standing there in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What drives a man to the stars on a life of high adventure and grave peril?
but in spite of that
From this reading Yet somehow we didn't notice the rain or the discomfort.
