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Vocabulary:
prudent (adj.) - syn: judicious, ant: careless
pitiless (adj.) - syn: brutal, ant: sympathetic
capricious (adj.) - syn: volatile, ant: staid
precarious (adj.) - syn: risky, ant: certain
anthracite (n.) - syn: coal
livid (adj.) - syn: pallid, ant: radiant
poultice (n.) - syn: dressing
10. She is the granddaughter of the famous tailor, wears shoes, and is one of the most beautiful girls on the mountain. Also, she is interested in educated people, unlike most other peasants.
11. Luo is proud of his intelligence and the fact that he is civilized and also, he feels that he cannot like someone who is not educated like him, because he still has the mindset that educated people are superior
12. The tunnel is like their reeducation, because just like they might not get out of the tunnel alive, they might never get out of reeducation. It is also similar in the way that they worry a lot about it and that time spent in both is difficult. However, there is a three in a thousand chance that they will get out of reeducation and that is like the small dot of light that is the exit to the tunnel.
13. He is convinced that Luo is crying because he had talked earlier about his thought that he would die in the tunnel. It was the type of crying that comes with hopelessness and fear.
14. She helps his through the sickness by giving him the poultice, getting sorceresses to look over him, and by giving him love.
15. This probably means that even though the girl was sincere, and it should have saved her mother, her mother still died and this world just isn't always fair.