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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 PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
againstprepositionUS /əˈɡenst/
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
almost
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
back
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
believenounUS /ˈbelieve/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
bogged
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
braced
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
brontosaurus
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
car
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
cart
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
close
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
COFFEE
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
concerning
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
coyly
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
crust
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
cypress
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
dark
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
down
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
early
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
escaped
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
explorers
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
fancied
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
feet
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
FORprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
French
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
giant
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
glens
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
gravel
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
hardly
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
haunt
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
Haven
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
hold
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
land
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
lands
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
lay
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
legends
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
looking
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Mississippi
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
monsters
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
more
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
mouth
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
mud
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
narrowly
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
neck
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
no-man's
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
old
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
ONEpronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
peeking
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
Pirate's
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
PISTOLS
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
ran
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Ricky
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
road
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
roadster's
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
rotting
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
seat
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
see
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
south
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
sprawling
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
spur
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
struggled
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
supposed
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
surface
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
surprisednounUS /surprised/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
swamps
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
thinadjectiveUS /θɪn/
Having little thickness or extent.
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
toldnounUS /told/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
tracknounUS /træk/
a route or signs showing the way someone went
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
twenty
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From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
Twice
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
TWO
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
unsavory
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
up
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
Val
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From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
vines
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading PISTOLS FOR TWO--COFFEE FOR ONE Val braced himself against the back of the roadster's seat and struggled to hold the car to a road which was hardly more than a cart track.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
wild
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From this reading A spur of this unsavory no-man's land ran close along the road, and looking into it one could almost believe, fancied Val, in the legends told by the early French explorers concerning the giant monsters who were supposed to haunt the swamps and wild lands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
wood
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From this reading To the south lay the old cypress swamps, dark glens of rotting wood and sprawling vines.
worked
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From this reading Twice since Ricky and he had left Pirate's Haven they had narrowly escaped being bogged in the mud which had worked up through the thin crust of gravel on the surface.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck.
