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Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings.
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He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored and imperially slim.
(from "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson)
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This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
(from "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar)
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. . .if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand. . .