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The mountain pass was a tortuous road, winding and twisting like a snake around the trees of the mountainside.

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The children were as different as day and night. He was a lively conversationalist, but she was reserved and taciturn.

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Celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, and stars, have fascinated man through the centuries.

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His emaciation, that is, his skeleton-like appearance, was frightening to see. “Skeleton-like appearance” is the definition of “emaciation.”

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Flooded with spotlights – the focus of all attention – the new Miss America began her year-long reign. She was the cynosure of all eyes for the rest of the evening.

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And on his back the burden of the world.

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• World

• His

Who made him dead to rapture and despair?

• dead

• cleaned

• delight

• despair

A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.

• never hopes

• never loved

• never see

• never saw

More fraught with danger to the universe

• surprise

• danger

• fear

• death

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, is this the handiwork you give to God

• heir

• widow

• rulers

• husband