Toni Morrison's "A Mercy"

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Here is a list of key vocabulary words from Toni Morrison's "A Mercy," a novel featured in the VT lesson "Figurative Language in Toni Morrison's 'A Mercy.'"
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  1. indentured
    bound or forced to work by contract
  2. gentry
    the most powerful members of a society
  3. magpie
    long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous call
  4. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  5. commodity
    any good that can be bought and sold
  6. blasphemy
    profane language
  7. daft
    foolish or mentally irregular
  8. heathen
    a person who does not acknowledge your god
  9. sea change
    a profound transformation
  10. smitten
    affected by something overwhelming
  11. salvation
    rescuing or protecting someone or something from harm
  12. minion
    a servile or fawning dependent
  13. lethal
    of an instrument of certain death
  14. docile
    easily handled or managed
  15. feral
    wild and menacing
  16. roiled
    (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
  17. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  18. infidel
    a person who does not acknowledge your god
  19. mercy
    a disposition to be kind and forgiving
  20. dominion
    control or power through legal authority
Created on Mon Jan 26 11:04:31 EST 2009 (updated Wed Jan 28 11:31:39 EST 2009)

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