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Phillis Wheatley vocabulary and life
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| ’twas | it was |
| mercy | compassion |
| sable | black, a costly black fur |
| pagan | someone or something that is not religious |
| benighted | not well educated |
| redemption | freeing from any consequences of sin |
| scornful | to dislike something |
| diabolic | related to the devil |
| peruse | look something over |
| Cain | Biblical character |
| refin'd | purified, changed to make it better |
| pangs | bad feelings inside |
| whence | where |
| excruciating | very painful |
| molest | disturb or bother |
| seiz'd | to take something |
| tyrannic | being completely ruled by one person |
| beloved | much loved |
| sway | to control or influence |
| Senegal/Gambia | Wheatley's native land |
| Boston | Wheatley's adoptive homeland |
| Ben Franklin | praised her poetry |
| Thomas Jefferson | marginalized her poetry |
| George Washington | subject of a Wheatley poem |
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