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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 Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
adventurous
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
air
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
becauseconjunctionUS /bɪˈkɔːz/
for the reason that
From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
behindprepositionUS /bɪˈhaɪnd/
at or toward the back of something
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
belonged
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From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
blighted
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
breatheverbUS /briːð/
to speak or reveal information, especially secretly
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
Certain
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From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
cheerful
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From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
city
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combined
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
Coombe
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
cries
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defiant
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From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
desperate
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
easy
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From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
effort
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
faces
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From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
find
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From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
forget
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From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
get
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
getting
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
gruesome
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
hearnounUS /hear/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
heard
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
hellish
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
horror
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
house
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
hushed
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
hysterical
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
kept
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
less
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
livid
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
looknounUS /look/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
Lord
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
made
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
men
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
nextnounUS /next/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
nightmares
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
Others
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From this reading Others strove to look defiant and cheerful and did not find it easy.
paled
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From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
panic
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
parts
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
past
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
people
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
policemen
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
raids
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
rather
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
restrain
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
returnednounUS /ˈreturned/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
seen
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From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
servants
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
sharp
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
shuddering
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
slice
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From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
Some
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
spirit
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
strove
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
things
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
tried
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From this reading Some tried to get past policemen to certain parts of the city and some, getting past, returned livid and less adventurous in spirit because they had heard things it was gruesome to hear.
waken
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Lord Coombe went the next morning to the slice of a house and found the servants rather hysterical.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
women
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From this reading It was one of the raids which left hellish things behind it--things hushed with desperate combined effort to restrain panic, but which blighted the air people strove to breathe and kept men and women shuddering for long after and made people waken with sharp cries from nightmares of horror.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading Certain paled faces belonged to those who had seen things and would never forget them.
