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THINK in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
DAYS in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
YOUR in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
STILE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
FOREST in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
AGAMEMNON in The Odyssey by Homer
PURPLE in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
PAST in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
FAMILY in The Aeneid by Virgil
FRIENDS in War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
DRINKING in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
THEY in Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
CAT in Animal Farm by George Orwell
SIGNAL in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
GOLD in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
GRIEVING in The Odyssey by Homer
EAR in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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CHANGE in The Odyssey by Homer
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MONSTERS in Dracula by Bram Stoker
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