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Glossary

Exploited

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Exploit verb \ik-ˈsploit, ˈek-ˌ\

a: to make productive use of :  utilize <exploiting your talents> <exploit your opponent’s weakness>

b:  to make use of meanly or unfairly for one’s own advantage <exploiting migrant farm workers>

“He became, for us, a thing to be avoided, outsmarted, and exploited.”

The Shawl paragraph 11

Initially I thought of exploited as a noun and it didn’t make much sense since the other two words were verbs. The father was a thing for that was to be avoided, outsmarted and utilized.

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Glossary, Week 3

Proselytes

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Proselyte is noun.

According to Merriam Webster dictionary the word proselyte means:  A new convert (as to a faith or cause).

The word proselyte was used by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 9 of the class handout entitled, “Young Goodman Brown.”

Hawthorne wrote, “And there stood the proselytes, beneath the canopy of fire.”

Goodman Brown and a young woman whose face was covered, but whom he later realized was his beloved Faith were the proselytes.  They were the ones who were newly converted to  join the fiend, (devil) worshippers.

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