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SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVEL
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$200
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Catherine & Isabella Linton
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Wuthering Heights
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$400
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Percy Jackson, in his first novel
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The Lightning Thief
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$600
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Miss Lucy Westenra, the first victim in Great Britain
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Dracula
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$800
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Raskolnikov
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Crime and Punishment
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$1000
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Bigger Thomas, a Black youth in Chicago
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Native Son
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STOCK: MARKETS
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$200
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COST is the stock symbol for this company--don't overthink it
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Costco
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$400
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KR is the stock symbol for this major supermarket chain
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Kroger
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$600
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This mega-retailer that joined the Dow Industrials in 1997 is near the bottom of the list alphabetically
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Walmart
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$800
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WFM was once the stock symbol for this company, but Amazon bought it
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Whole Foods
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$1000
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Tesco Stores is listed on this city's stock market
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London
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CINEMAPOURRI
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$200
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The 2 turtles Sylvester Stallone had in "Creed 2" are the same turtles he had in this 1976 movie
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Rocky
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$400
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C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they're being dug from the dunes where they were left
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The Ten Commandments
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$600
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Paige O'Hara & Robby Benson voiced the title pair of this Disney film
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Beauty and the Beast
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$800
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In this film Bogie's character says that Katharine Hepburn's had "ten absurd ideas for my one"
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The African Queen
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$1000
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Here's this woman who won no fewer than eight Academy Awards for costume design
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Edith Head
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SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
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$200
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Though they may have fluff, many vultures lack these on their heads & faces, perhaps to prevent bacterial infections from carrion
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feathers
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$400
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A 2013 study said these fish are more likely to scavenge than hunt when they are longer than 14 feet
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great white sharks
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$600
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Animals that eat from the sea floor, like lobsters, are known as this hyphenated term, also an amoral opportunist
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a bottom-feeder
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$800
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Thriving in urban areas, these carnivores also called ringtails are really scavengers & willingly share food
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raccoons
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$1000
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These dog-sized marsupials named for an Australian island can clean their plates--bones, fur & all
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Tasmanian devils
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AGE
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$200
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With a pass to Antonio brown in 2021, this quarterback became the oldest to throw a postseason touchdown
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Tom Brady
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$400
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One of the oldest living organisms, the pando of Utah is a grove of quaking these trees
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aspens
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$600
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This infamous Boston gangster was once the oldest fugitive to make the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list at age 69
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Whitey Bulger
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$800
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Thanks to a 1386 treaty signed by Richard II & João I England's oldest ally is this country
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Portugal
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$1000
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Some of the oldest paleolithic hand axes were found in this gorge near Serengeti National Park
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Olduvai Gorge
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BEFORE BEAUTY
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$200
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An open-mouthed scientific vessel, or a squeaky Muppet
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beaker
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$400
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Stew on this! It's a hyphenated term for an accountant
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a bean counter
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$600
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Here's an artist impression of one of these, an unconventional '50s cool cat
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a beatnik
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$800
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In French, this 8-letter word means "a lot"
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beaucoup
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$1000
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This name comes before "wind force scale" in a meteorological ranking system
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Beaufort
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A SPENDY LITTLE WAR
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$400
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A short 1840s war with this country cost the U.S. an estimated $71 million, or around $3 billion today
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Mexico
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$800
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A 2010 congressional report estimated that this war cost the U.S. 1.1% of its 1899 GDP
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the Spanish-American War
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$1200
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In 1975 the New York Times reported that China & the U.S.S.R. had given $7.5 billion in aid to this country, 40% for its military
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North Vietnam
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$1600
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$350 billion is one estimate for what these 2 Mideast countries spent fighting each other from 1980 to 1988
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Iran & Iraq
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$2000
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Britain's victory in this 1754-1763 war nearly doubled the national debt
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the French and Indian War
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A TALE OF 2 GEORGIAS
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$400
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Our Georgia is on the Atlantic; the country of Georgia is sandwiched between Turkey & Russia along this sea
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the Black Sea
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$800
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Most of Georgia's Kolkhida lowland used to be a stagnant one of these; our Georgia has the Okefenokee one
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a swamp
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$1200
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In the U.S., Georgia borders Alabama; on its south, Georgia borders this country that also begins & ends with "A"
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Armenia
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$1600
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Georgia's capital Atlanta is a sister city to this national capital of Georgia
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Tbilisi
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$2000
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In the U.S., the Blue Ridge Mountains reach into northern Georgia; in Europe this "Great" range is to the north
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the Caucasus
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BIBLICAL ART
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$400
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For the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted "The Fall of Man" & "The Expulsion from" this place
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the Garden of Eden
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$800
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Seen here on a 14th century German panel is Jesus, raising him from the dead
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Lazarus
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$1200
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Tintoretto painted "The Conversion of Saint Paul" on his way to this city
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Damascus
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$1600
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Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist's "Jacob's Ladder" was recovered in 2015 & sold at auction in 2020
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Marc Chagall
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$2000
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Van Dyck depicted Jesus crowned with thorns in this painting whose name means "behold the man"
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Ecce Homo
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CLOTH & FABRIC
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$400
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Tweed is a fabric that can be made with this basic weave that also starts with "tw"
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twill
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$800
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This light, crinkled fabric shares a name with a light, crinkly paper
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crepe
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$1200
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Made from hemp or jute, it's the 6-letter type of canvas seen here
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burlap
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$1600
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The fleece of this llama & vicuna relative is prized & comes in almost 2 dozen natural colors
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alpaca
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$2000
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Threads of metal are woven into this 4-letter fabric with a French name
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lamé
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DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS
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$400
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Dr. Lance Gentile started as a medical adviser on this Michael Crichton-created show & by 1995 was writing & winning Emmys for it
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ER
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$800
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In 2019 Jesse Armstrong won for this HBO show about the dysfunctional Roy family, running a media empire
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Succession
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$1200
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This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law"
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(David) Lynch
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$1600
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"Life on the Street" was the subtitle of this Baltimore-set cop show that won in 1993 for Tom Fontana
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Homicide
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$2000
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In 1994, all 5 nominees were for episodes of this police series set in the fictional 15th Precinct in Manhattan
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NYPD Blue
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GIVING CONSONANT ATTENTION
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$400
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DCDS: shedding seasonally
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deciduous
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$800
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GLC: relating to Celtic highlanders
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Gaelic
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$1200
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VR: French term describing the overall lifework of a writer
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oeuvre
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$1600
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Z: a Greek liqueur
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ouzo
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$2000
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Bsqs: it's from the Latin for "compliant", perhaps to excess
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obsequious
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FICTION
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N/A
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In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!"
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(Franz) Kafka
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