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Vocabulary Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative
wearisome (adj.) fatiguing; exhausting
tedious (adj.) tiring; dreary
lamentable (adj.) regrettable; distressing
entreated (v.) asked sincerely; prayed to
plunder (n.) goods seized, especially during wartime
melancholy (adj.) sad; sorrowful
decrepit (adj.) run down; worn out by age or use
savory (adj.) appetizing; agreeable
affliction (n.) pain; hardship
bewitching (adj.) enticing; irresistible

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