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Who are the two protagonists in the adventures of Tom Sawyer?

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Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn

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Who is the author of the original story of the adventures of Tom Sawyer?

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Samuel Clemens /mark twain

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Where (city and state) and when does the play take place in the adventure of Tom Sawyer ?

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St Petersburg Missouri 1840s

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What is the resolution of the play the adventures of Tom Sawyer ?

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Injun joe is dead and Becky and Tom get out of the cave

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Who is the author of the original story of a piece of string?

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Guy de Maupassant

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Who are two main characters of the story piece of string?

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Hauchecorn and maladin

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What is the setting of the play a piece of string?

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Goderville, France a French village

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What is the main problem of the play a piece of string?

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Hauchecorne is framed of stealing a pocketbook

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What is the resolution of the piece of string?

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They found the wallet but everyone still thinks Hauchecorne had stolen it

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Who is the author of the story jumping frog?

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Samuel clemens/ mark twain

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Who are the two main characters of the jumping frog?

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Jim smiley and the stranger

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What wager is made involving parson walkers wife ? Jumping frog

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That she will not live

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Why was the narrator looking for smiley ? Jumping frog

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Someone asked him to

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How much money does smiley bet his frog can jump out any other frog in the country? Jumping frog

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40 dollars

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What does the strangers do to the frog? Jumping frog

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Bullet pellates in his mouth

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What internal conflict does tom face? How does he overcome it? Tom Sawyer

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He doesn’t know if he should say anything about the murder. He overcomes it by confessing what he saw

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What external conflict does tom face? How does he overcome it? Tom Sawyer

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He gets lost in the cave. He needs to find his way out.

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What is an example of dramatic irony in the play? Piece of string

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The irony is everyone that everyone thinks Hauchecorne was the theif when he was not

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Who is the author of the story?monkeys paw

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W.W Jacobs

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Why did the holy man put a curse on the monkey’s paw?

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He wanted to show fate rules peoples lives

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What happened to the first man who made wishes on the monkey’s paw ?

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The first man wished for death

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What is mr. Whites first wish? How does it come true? Monkeys paw

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He wishes for 200 pounds, he gets it when his son dies in the factory so to say sorry they give him 200’ pounds

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What does mrs.white want as the secound wish? How do you know it came true?

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She wishes for her son back the after a while there is someone at the door moaning.there was also a shadow at the door

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What Is the third wish ?how do you know it came true?

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The wish is the son to be gone and it came true because the son disappeared

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What necklace did Madame loisel borrow?

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She borrowed Madame foiresters

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How much was the original necklace worth?

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500 francs

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What is the ending of the story an example of ?

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Surprised ending

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How dis Poe die?

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The cause was never known

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What event sent Poe over the edge into depression?

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When she was will and when she died

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What did Poe do to support himself and his wife ?

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Jus got a job writing fiction and editing for a literature magazine

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What is Samuel Clemens pseudonym?

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Mark twain

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What was Samuel Clemens first job?

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Working for the newspaper company

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Where did Samuel Clemens sell most of his stories to?

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The newspaper

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Samuel Clemens was born and died the year what comet circled earth?

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1935-1910 Halle’s comet

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What are Clemens two most famous books? What are his two most famous characters?

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The adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn

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What is Edgar Allen poe’s most famous short story?

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Tale tale heart

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What is Edgar Allen poe’s most famous poem ?

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The raven

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What school was Edgar Allen Poe asked to leave?

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Military school

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Who is the author of California’s tale?

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Samuel Clemens / mark twain

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Describe two of the characters in the story?

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Henry- a man that went crazy after his wife died

Narrator- a miner from California

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What did Henry do after he recieved the news?

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Henry went crazy

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According to Henry , when would his wife return from her visit to her people?

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Saturday evening in June

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What did Tom and joe do when Henry read the letter from his wife?

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They cried

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What did joe reveal to the narrator?

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His wife was dead

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Who is the author of the tale tale heart?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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How do you know the narrator of the story is insane?

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Stares at the old man while he is sleeping and thinks everyone can here his heart beat

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Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

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His evil eye

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What finally makes the narrator kill the old man?

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He here’s the old mans heartbeat and thinks the neighbors can hear it

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What does the narrator do with his body?

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Puts it under his wood floor

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What causes the sound of the beating heart that eventually makes the narrator confess?

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Heartbeat guilt

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A story’s main message or moral

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Theme

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A struggle between opposing forces.

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Conflict

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A struggle within the character

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Internal conflict

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A struggle between the character and another person, society, nature, or technology

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External conflict

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important character; a character who plays a large role In a story.

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Major/main character

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A character who does not play a large role in the story.

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Minor character

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The opponent or enemy of the main character,

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Antagonists

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The main or central character of a work of literature. Usually, the main character is involved in a conflict

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Protagonists

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A character who undergoes a significant internal change over the course of a story. This may be a change in understanding, values,insight, etc

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Dynamic character

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A character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story.

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Static character

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The means through which an author reveals a characters personality.

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Characterization

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The writer or a narrator tells the reader what the character is like

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Direct characterization

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The author shows the reader or audience member what the character is like through
How the character looks
What the character does
What the character says
What the character thinks
How the character affects other characters

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Indirect characterization

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The perspective from which a story is told.

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Point of view

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Where the narrator is a character in the story who describes things from his or get own perspective and refers to himself or herself as I

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First person point of view

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Where the narrator is not a character in the story but the narrator can describe the experiences and thought of only one character in the story

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Third person limited point of view

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Where the narrator is not one of the characters and is able to describe the experiences and thoughts of every character in the story

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Third person omniscient point of view

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The feeling the reader gets from a work of literature.

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Mood

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The authors attitude toward the subject matter to toward the reader or audience.

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Tone

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Language that portrays sensory experiences of experiences of the five scences

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Imagery

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The coversations between characters in a work of

Iiturature

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Dialogue

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Words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage

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Aside

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Form of a language that is spoken in a particular area or by a particular group of people that includes some of its own words, grammar ,and pronounciations

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Dialect

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The environment in which a story takes place including the time, location, and the physical charcteristics of the surroundings

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Setting

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A scene In a story that occurred before the present time in the story

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Flashback

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Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story.

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Foreshadowing

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The sequence of events in the story

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Plot

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Intro of the setting, characters, and basic information

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Exposition /opening event

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The story’s central problem

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Conflict

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What happens to intesify the problem

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Rising action

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The point on the play novel short story or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches it’s greatest intensity and then is resolved

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Climax

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What happens to solve the problem

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Falling action

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How things end

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Resolution

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When the reader or audience member is aware of something that the characters are not ware of

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Dramatic irony

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When something happens that is the reverse of what you expected

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Situational irony

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When the name or description of something implies the opposite of the truth

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Verbal irony

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The practice of using symbols

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Symbolism

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An object setting event animal or person that on one level itself but that has another meaning as we’ll

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Symbol

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Means to be a symbol of

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Symbolize

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Clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration

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Apparel

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To condemn openly; to accuse formally

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Denounce

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Suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something

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Famished

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Very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement

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Immense

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Showing remarkable originally, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever

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Ingenious

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To annoy, trouble, make weary

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Irk

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A stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual

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Oaf

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Extremely dry; uninteresting , dull

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Arid

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A large wave; to rise swell like a wave

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Billow

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To force, compel; to restrain, hold back

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Constrain

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To encircle, go or reach around; to enclose; to include with a. Certain group or class

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Encompass

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Impossible to understand

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Incomprehensible

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To handle or use skillfully; to manage or control for personal gain or advantage

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Manipulate

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Embarrassed; resembling a sheep in meekness, timid

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Sheepish

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The strength needed to keep going or overcome physical or mental strain; staying power

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Stamina

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A rapid , large outpouring of something

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Barrage

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SomeOne or something that is extremely puzzling; that which cannot be understood or explained

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Enigma

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To look at or think about with great intensity and statisfaction; to take great personal joy in

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Gloat

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A line of people waiting for something

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Queue

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A very wise person

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Sage

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To satisfy , relieve, or bring to an end

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Slake

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The landscape, especially it’s physical features or fitness for some use; a field of knowledge

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Terrain

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To think , believe ; consider, have an opinion

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Deem

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Difficult to catch or to hold; hard to explain or understand

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Elusive

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To worship as an idol

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Idolize

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An ethusiastic public welcome , an out burst of applause

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Ovation

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Unimportant, trivial; narrow-minded; secondary in rank, minor

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Petty

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A sorry condition or state

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Plight

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A daydream; the condition of being lost in thought

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Reverie

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Bitter disagreement; fighting, struggle

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Strife

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To fall forward; to overturn, bring about the down fall

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Topple

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With a sharp point; keen and alert; sharp and severe rising quickly to a high point and lasting for a short time

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Acute

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To talk or act Ina noisy and threatening way

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Bluster

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One aspect or side of a subject or problem

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Facet

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A brawl a noisy quarrel

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Fray

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Greedy very hungry eager for satisfaction

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Ravenous

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To prove incorrect

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Refute

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A brief statement giving a general view of some subject

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Synopsis

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To delay leaving to linger to wait

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Tarry

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The program for a meeting a list outline or planner

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Agenda

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Friendly good natured

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Amiable

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A disease that causes plants to wither and die

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Blight

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Rough and noisy In a cheerful way

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Boisterous

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Marked by bloodshed, slaughter, or violence

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Gory

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Extra space for moving along a certain route

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Leeway

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To go away from leave empty to void

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Vacate

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An idle wanderer a tramp

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Vagabond

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