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accomplishments
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
all
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
AndconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
ant
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
antennae
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
ants
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
appointed
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
beyondprepositionUS /bɪˈɑːnd/
on the far side of; further than
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
blended
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
building
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
busy
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
CALLING
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
chambers
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
changes
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
community
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
defences
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
disbeliefs
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From this reading There was no retrospection, there were no imaginings, no fears, no disbeliefs.
dreamed
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
EachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
empire
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
eyes
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
failures
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
fared
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
fears
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From this reading There was no retrospection, there were no imaginings, no fears, no disbeliefs.
fell
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
footprints
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
forwardnounUS /forward/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
furnishing
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
galleries
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
hill
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
human
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
imaginings
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From this reading There was no retrospection, there were no imaginings, no fears, no disbeliefs.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
individual
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
leftnounUS /left/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
man
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
new
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading There was no retrospection, there were no imaginings, no fears, no disbeliefs.
now
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
own
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
people
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
place
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
pretensions
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
product
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
progress
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
providing
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
rapid
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
retrospection
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From this reading There was no retrospection, there were no imaginings, no fears, no disbeliefs.
riches
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
sane
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
set
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
significance
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
storing
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
strivings
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
swift
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
there
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
thereto
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From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/
in spite of the fact that
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
tiny
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
town
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From this reading The rapid changes, the strivings, the accomplishments, the pretensions and the failures of the new town blended in the product of human progress.
underletting
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From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was no retrospection, there were no imaginings, no fears, no disbeliefs.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Each man fell into his place in the community as though appointed thereto, and the eyes of all were set forward.
West
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From this reading THE CALLING And now there still fared on the swift, sane empire of the West.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
yetconjunctionUS /jet/
but in spite of that
From this reading The people were as ants, busy building their hill, underletting it with galleries, furnishing it with chambers, storing it with riches, providing it with defences; yet no individual ant looked beyond his own antennae, or dreamed that there might be significance in the tiny footprints which he left.
