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EXPECTATIONS in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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COMING in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
SLAVE in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
TRUST in Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli
MAN in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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DUTY in Othello by William Shakespeare
DESTROY in Dracula by Bram Stoker
GOLD in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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NATIVE in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
MAKE in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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OWE in Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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