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The woman and her daughter's lifestyle had _________ to the narrator and Dupin's.

a) Acclimated
b) Oscillated
c) Disintegrated
d) Paralleled

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The woman and her daughter's lifestyle d) paralleled the narrator and Dupin's, implying a high degree of similarity or concurrency in their lifestyles.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer to the question 'The woman and her daughter's lifestyle had _________ to the narrator and Dupin's.' is d) Paralleled. When we say that one thing has paralleled another, we mean that it has been very similar or happened at the same time. The other choices, a) Acclimated, b) Oscillated, c) Disintegrated, do not fit the context provided by the question.

A lifestyle cannot acclimate to another; it either parallels or does not. Oscillated would imply that the lifestyle is swinging back and forth, which does not make sense here. Disintegrated suggests falling apart, which is also not relevant to the question of similarity.

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