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afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
air
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
Argueil
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
avenue
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
avoid
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
back
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
BehindprepositionUS /bɪˈhaɪnd/
at or toward the back of something
From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
blessed
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
blood-red
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
boarding-schools
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From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
brief
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
cart
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church
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close-barred
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
colour
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
convent
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
country
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
descendednounUS /ˈdescended/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
differentnounUS /ˈdifferent/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
driven
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
dying
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
elms
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
EvennounUS /even/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
fields
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
foundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
fresh
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
gaunt
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
heard
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From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
hill
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
hillside
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
holding
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
jostled
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
landscape
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
lookednounUS /looked/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
lumbering
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
mydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
myselfpronounUS /ˌmaɪˈself/
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
old
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
places
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From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
prison-like
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
red-tiled
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
return
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
road
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
rolling
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
shivering
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
sides
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
sleepy
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
smell
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
SoconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
sort
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From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
springless
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From this reading As I looked behind, holding on to the sides of the springless cart to avoid being jostled into the road, I found myself shivering.
stained
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
stunted
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From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
sunset
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
terriblenounUS /ˈterrible/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
there
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
things
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
town
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very
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From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
visit
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From this reading Even after my brief visit there this return into the fresh country air, the smell of the fields, the colour and life of the rolling landscape, were blessed things.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading The convent boarding-schools which I had heard of had been very different sort of places.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
windows
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From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading So I was driven back to Argueil, the red-tiled, sleepy old town, with its great gaunt church, whose windows, as the lumbering cart descended the hill, were stained blood-red by the dying sunset.
