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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 There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
abstraction
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
accept
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading When she was alone, it was worse.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
AtprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
Betty
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
BORNnounUS /born/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
briskly
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
businesslike
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
certain
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
Circle
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
craved
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
crisis
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
D
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
defeat
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
disaster
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
down
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
E
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
emotion
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
emotions
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
escape
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
evidence
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
ExceptprepositionUS /ɪkˈsept/
apart from; not including
From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
expression
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
face
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
fencing
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
flooded
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
folded
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
forty
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
gave
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
girl
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
giving
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
guessed
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
handsplural nounUS /hændz/
members of a ship’s crew
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
head
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
held
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
impossible
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
inundated
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
lastnounUS /last/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
men
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
moments
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
moving
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
nonepronounUS /nʌn/
not one, and not any
From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
northwest
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
orders
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
passing
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
pigpens
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
Quarter
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From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
sit
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
spirit
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
THATconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
There
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
up
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
vigor
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From this reading There was in her a certain vigor of the spirit that craved expression, that held her head up in the face of disaster.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
waves
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From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
WAY
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From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading When she was alone, it was worse.
whileconjunctionUS /waɪl/
during the time that
From this reading Except for moments of abstraction, she gave no evidence of the waves of emotion that inundated her while she was giving orders about the fencing of the northwest forty or the moving of the pigpens.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading BORN THAT WAY It was impossible for Betty to escape the emotions that flooded her, but she was the last girl to sit down and accept defeat with folded hands.
worse
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From this reading When she was alone, it was worse.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading At the Quarter Circle D E she was so briskly businesslike that none of the men would have guessed that she was passing through a crisis.
