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WORK in Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli
INSOLENT in The Odyssey by Homer
BURNT in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
ENJOYABLE in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
GIRL in The Odyssey by Homer
HOME in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
WIRED in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
DREADED in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
LENI in The Trial by Franz Kafka
CLIMB in Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
DRESS in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
AGENT in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
ADOPT in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
ROSES in Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
NIGHT in Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
DEMETRIUS in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
TH in Lady Chatterley's Lover by D H Lawrence
RAPIDITY in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I in Anthem by Ayn Rand
RENFIELD in Dracula by Bram Stoker
INTELLIGENCE in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
MUSIC in Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
O'CLOCK in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
FEEL in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
LAIR in White Fang by Jack London
TOM in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
AGAIN in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
SICKNESS in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
HALE in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
FRIEND in Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
SERIOUS in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
NEVA in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
SHIRT in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
PROUD in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
HOPE in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
BEAUTY in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
MIND in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
BEN in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
TANYA in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
LOVE in War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
MARVELOUS in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
MAN in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
CHRISTEN in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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CARE in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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DAUGHTER in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
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EYE in Hamlet by William Shakespeare
CHARM in The Tempest by William Shakespeare
BILLEE in The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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ISLAND in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
SCHOONER in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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SERENE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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SEX in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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CHANCE in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
LEARN in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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SEA in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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BELLOMONT in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
UNDERSTANDING in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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MIND in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
CEASE in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
HURRY in Persuasion by Jane Austen
ANYTHING in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ESSENTIAL in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
SOVEREIGN in War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
FIVE in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
SORREL in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
RUN in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
JOY in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
FIGHT in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
INSTEAD in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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HOLD in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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RELATED in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
TIME in Hamlet by William Shakespeare
FLAME in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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WOMEN in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
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