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Concise
Expressing much in a few words
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Lament
To regret; to show grief for
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Animosity
Bitter hostility
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Benign
Kind, beneficial
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Ambiguous
Unclear; open to more than one interpretation
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Reproach
To criticize sharply; censure
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Imperious
Domineering; arrogantly authoritative
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Resilience
Ability to recover quickly
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Nostalgia
A bittersweet longing for the past
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Indulge
To please or satisfy
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Irately
Angrily
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Constrain
To hold back; to restrict
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Genially
Pleasantly
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Conscientious
Through and careful
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Facetiously
Jokingly
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Whim
A passing fancy
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Precarious
Dangerously unstable or insecure
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Denunciation
Condemnation
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Instigate
To urge on
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Discreet
Careful in conduct and speech
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Heresy
Unthinkable violation
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Magnanimous
Noble and generous in spirit
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Affable
Friendly; approachable
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Advocate
To speak in favor of; promote
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Empirical
Based on observation or experiment
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Enhance
To make greater or better
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Aribitrary
Determined by impulse or chance; without reason
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Assess
To make a judgement about
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Ardor
Energy, intensity, enthusiasm
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Discrepancy
An unexpected difference
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(e) George Orwell
Animal Farm
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(a) Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt
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(e) Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe
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(a) Henry James
Daisy Miller
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(e) Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
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(a) Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
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(a) Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
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(e) John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga
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(a) John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
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(e) Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
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(a) William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust
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(e) Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
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(e) Henry Fielding
Joseph Andrews
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(a) Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night
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(e) Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
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(e) William Golding
Lord of the Flies
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(a) Thornton Wilder
Our Town
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(e) Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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(e) Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
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(a) Booth Tarkington
Seventeen
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(a) Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
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(a) Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
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(e) Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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(a) William Faulkner
The Unvanquished
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(e) William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
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Honore Daumier/ French/ 19th
The Third Class Carriage
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George Caleb Bingham/ American/ 19th
Shooting for the Beef
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William Morris/ English/ 19th
The Woodpecker Tapestry
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Pablo Picasso/ Spanish/ 20th
The Old Guitarist
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N.C. Wyeth/ American/ 20th
They Fought with Him on Foot More Than Three Hours, Both Before Him and Behind
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Diego Rivera/ Mexican/ 20th
Campesino con Sombrero
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Joseph Stella/ American/ 20th
The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme
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Alfred Stieglitz/ American/ 20th
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Norman Rockwell/ American/ 20th
Homecoming Marine
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Andrew Wyeth/ American/ 20th
Christina's World
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