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Hanging Criminal Tended To Captivate Writer

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adjective

• relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed

• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

noun

• a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

adjective satellite

• contingent on something else

• held from above and hanging down

• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

• addicted to a drug

39%7To captivate or captivate someone
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26%8 New venture to captivate grand Russian writer
noun

• Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883)

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