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COLOUR in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
MUSIC in Anna Karenina 3 by Leo Tolstoy
MIND in The Aeneid by Virgil
BOOK in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
GRIEF in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
SISTER in King Lear by William Shakespeare
STUDIO in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
THE BEAST in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
MIRROR in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
CARRIED in Animal Farm by George Orwell
SCARED in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
CHENIERE in The Awakening by Kate Chopin
WORRY in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ALIVE in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
ADMIRAL in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
POOL in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
ADVENTURE in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
NURSE in Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare
DARRY in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
GLASSES in Dubliners by James Joyce
AND A in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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ANTINOUS in The Odyssey by Homer
FREE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
THAT in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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LETTER in Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare
COUNTENANCE in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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PANGLOSS in Candide by Voltaire
RELIGIOUS in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
IT in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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HEALTH in Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
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LITTLE in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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WINTER in Animal Farm by George Orwell
CAPITAL in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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HEAVEN in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
STAY in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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LINES in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
TRUTH in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
FLOWER in Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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