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WIND in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
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GLANCE in Moby Dick by Herman Melville
ATTENTION in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
AGING in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
EXPECTATION in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
LIP in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
BLOOD in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
CHILD in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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FELT in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
CLOSET in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
DESIRE in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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LIGHT in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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SUPPORT in The Odyssey by Homer
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WORK in Anna Karenina 3 by Leo Tolstoy
PLEASED in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
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