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Vocabulary: Rhododendron- Pathological- "Soft-spoken and pathologically optimistic, he's the subject of a cult of personality in our hometown of Eugene, Oregon." Optimistic- "Soft-spoken and pathologically optimistic, he's the subject of a cult of personality in our hometown of Eugene, Oregon." Epic- "Somehow, a day trip becomes an epic, and his legend grows." Cascade Range- "Over dinner, he described the Oregon equivalent of a buried treasure: a forgotten trail, unmaintained since World War II, that climbed into the heart of the Cascade Range." Blazes- "He described blazes, left on trees by long-dead U.S. Forest Service workers, that would help us find our way." Forded- Ubiquitous-
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