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101. My teacher lowered my grade on a paper because I described a scene as grizzly. I thought that was a word.
102. What does the word hauteur mean? (From Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby)
103. What are vituperations? (From Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl)
104. My economics teacher said something about stagflation, what is that, exactly?
105. Are the words gamut and gauntlet interchangeable?
106. What are ostents? (From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice)
107. What is a sockdolager? (From Twain's Huckleberry Finn)
108. When do I write some time instead of sometime and sometimes?
109. What does insuperable mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
110. What is calumny? (From Shakespeare's Hamlet)
111. I thought I knew what work means, but my physics teacher defines it differently. What's up with that?
112. What is an augury? (From Sophocles' Antigone)
113. Can you help me figure out when to use the word lay instead of lie?
114. What does squally mean? (From Dickens' Great Expectations)
115. What does corporal mean? (From Shakespeare's Macbeth)
116. What does it mean to be plausible? (From Sinclair's The Jungle)
117. Can you tell me when to use faze instead of phase?
118. What is a dearth? (From Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre)
119. What does it mean to vacillate? (From Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest)
120. What is a heterodox? (From Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
121. What is felicity? (From Austen's Emma)
122. What is the difference between avenge and revenge?
123. What does it mean to be effacing? (From Adams's The Education of Henry Adams)
124. What is a repast? (From Chan Tsao's Dream of the Red Chamber)
125. What is the difference between the words precede and proceed?
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