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REST in Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
WOODS in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
CORRUPTION in Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
SELL in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
STEEL in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
TREE in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
POWER in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
PAPERWEIGHT in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
PIG in The Odyssey by Homer
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