Vocab - Phillis Wheatley

Define 'captive'

• a person who is captured and is kept as a prisoner

• forced someone to accept something.

• when the king/queen allow a company to run.

• the note or tone on which a key or system of tones is founded

Define 'countess'

• a rank given to some upper-class British women

• using someone unfairly for one's own advantage.

• small creatures native to New England.

• of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.

Define 'dedication'

• a part of the beginning of the book that names someone who is special to the author

• disagreed with something or someone.

• an offering of service for funds.

• the appearance or semblance of truth

Define 'independence'

• the state of not being controlled or ruled by another country

• an agreement between enemies to stop fighting for a period of time.

• to be noncommittal in a decision.

• curved, especially inward.

Define 'illegal'

• against the law

• to not buy use or participate in something as a way to protest.

• traditional meals for spring.

• the bone of the lower jaw.

Define 'ministers'

• leaders of the church

• colonists who wanted freedom from Britain.

• a rack to sleep on in the army.

• a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future

Define 'patriotism'

• love for one's country

• a person who supported the British cause and the American Revolution; a loyalist.

• stilts to provide better scouting of the enemy.

• tending or serving to admonish

Define 'Patriots"

• people who supported American independence from Great Britain

• housing or lodging

• merchants from the Siberian region.

• a hole or cavity made by excavating.

Define 'plantation'

• a large farm that produces crops for money

• something so bad or extreme that no one can bear it or tolerate it.

• a segment of a building.

• to withdraw from one's career, occupation, or office, usually because of age

Define 'protest'

• to fight against something

• when people force others to do something they don't choose to do.

• a game in which coins are used.

• lack of calm, peace, or ease