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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 A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
All
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
besideprepositionUS /bɪˈsaɪd/
next to; at the side of
From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
bland
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
branches
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
brokennounUS /broken/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
brooded
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
canal
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
cast
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
choked
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
cloak
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
cold
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
college
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
company
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
continuednounUS /ˈcontinued/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
country's
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
darkness
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
dawn
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
day
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
days
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
distantadjectiveUS /ˈdɪstənt/
not friendly or close
From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
Dowdenhame
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
elms
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
feathered
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
fell
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
fields
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
four
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
friend
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
FromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
green
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
grey
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
heavily
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
hedge-tops
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
hedges
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
iron-hard
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
ironic
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
joining
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
lain
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
luxuriance
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
monotony
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
moods
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
movement
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
Nature
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From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
night
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
Once
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
onepronounUS /wʌn/
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading Nature, in one of her ironic moods, had cast a grey and iron-hard cloak over all the country's bland luxuriance.
PARSON
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
pastureland
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
plants
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
reached
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
road
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
ruffed
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
sent
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
Shelton
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
shining
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
shivers
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
sky
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
sluggishly
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
steely
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
stretch
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
there
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From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
thick
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From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms.
tillprepositionUS /tɪl/
up to a particular time
From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
towing-path
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
travel
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
twice
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
village
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
water-lily
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
Wednesday
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From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
weeds
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From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Once or twice they had broken the monotony by a stretch along the towing-path of a canal, which, choked with water-lily plants and shining weeds, brooded sluggishly beside the fields.
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading From dawn till darkness fell there had been no movement in the steely distant sky; a cold wind ruffed in the hedge-tops, and sent shivers through the branches of the elms.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading A PARSON Shelton continued to travel with his college friend, and on Wednesday night, four days after joining company, they reached the village of Dowdenhame.
