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Exuberant
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Extreme; abundant
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Bland
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Pleasant; agreeable
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Dire
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Terrible
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Retribution
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Deserved punishment
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Fervent
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Passionate
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Imperious
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Domineering
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Ardor
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Emotional warmth; passion
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Aesthetic
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Sensitivity to art and beauty
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Dilemma
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A situation in which a person must choose between two equal alternatives
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Method king used for justice
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Choose between two doors; one-to show guilt-has a ferocious tiger behind it; the other-to show innocence-has a beautiful woman the accused would marry
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Overall theme of the story
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Dilemma between two equally unpleasant alternatives
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Outcome of the story
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There is none, but the fact that the king chooses a tiger and a beautiful woman affects the decision
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King's form of justice
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Subjective; arbitrary; by chance
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Similarities between the king and the princess
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Semi-barbaric; cold-hearted
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The twist in the dilemma lies not only in the decision between the two doors, but what else?
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The fact that the princess discovered what was behind the doors, and that the peasant farmer could tell she knew
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