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What was revolutionary about Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language?

It was the first dictionary to be compiled by a group of critics, poets, essayists, and biographers.

It was the first dictionary to include definitions of difficult or technical words.

It was the first English dictionary to use quotations from literature to illustrate word usage and development.

What is the best definition of the word revel as it is used in this passage?

to waste frivolously

to spend pleasurably

to work cautiously

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