Literature

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101 In Fahrenheit 451, why would a society make being a pedestrian a crime?
102 What does the phrase, a worn-out man of fashion" mean from Jane Eyre?"
103 Is sagacity a medical condition?
104 My teacher told me I was being obdurate. Was that a compliment?
105 What motives inspired Iago to plot revenge against Othello?
106 Who was the first king of Rome?
107 What does enervate mean?
108 What is a parvenu? I saw the word in William Makepeace Thackeray's book Vanity Fair.
109 Is salubrity somehow related to being famous?
110 Do capers have something to do with cops?
111 What's the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue?
112 In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce uses the word pandybat. What's a pandybat?
113 Does the word inexorable have something to do with driving demons out of a person?
114 Do people who prognosticate have some sort of special power?
115 What is a hegemony, from James Joyce's Ulysses?
116 What are fallow fields? I'm a city gal who heard the term at a 4-H fair and just read it in Anna Karenina.
117 What's the difference between parody and satire?
118 Lord of the Flies uses the word inimical. What does it mean?
119 What does dreadnaught mean, as it’s used in Bleak House?
120 I saw vertiginous in Madame Bovary. What does mean the word mean?
121 What does overweening mean, in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes?
122 Can you hear a dirge anyplace but a funeral?
123 Does imperturbable refer to something you can't break through?
124 What are the seven ages of man?
125 What is a chimera, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë?
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