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bemoan
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to express distress or grief over
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avarice
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extreme greed
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arduous
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requiring or using much energy and vigor; strenuous
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brash
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impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
2. hasty; rash; impetuous. 3. energetic or highly spirited, |
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balk
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to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified
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goad
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to prick or drive with
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who was in limbo
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virtuous pagans were put
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who was in the vestible
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the oppertunists
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what is different about dantes writing
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he writes in the vernacular
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when was dante born and when did he die
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born 1265 and died 1321
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when did he start writing
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1307-1321
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what year does the inferno start
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1300
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why does the inferno start there
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because in hell you can only see the future not the present
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what is the rhyme scheme
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bcb cdc ded |
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where did dante live
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in florence till he was exiled. that is when he began writing
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