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In paragraph 1 the author says the people participating in the HI-SEAS project,"subsist on a diet of freeze-dried, canned or preserved food." The word subsist means to live on. What is the connotation, or emotional association, of the word subsist as it is used in the sentence in paragraph 1, and what does it help communicate about their lives?