This document defines 10 words that are used in Mary Rowlandson's narrative about her captivity by Native Americans during King Philip's War in the late 1600s. The words include "wearisome", "tedious", "lamentable", "entreated", "plunder", "melancholy", "decrepit", "savory", "affliction", and "bewitching" and provide their meanings to help the reader understand Rowlandson's account of her experiences.