Target Vocabulary
Having even, fair, or identical standing in rights, degree, value, or status.
What is equal?
The Latin prefix in intellect (inter-) that means this.
What is "between" or "among"?
The Latin root in equal (equ) means this.
What is "even, level, just, or fair"?
The past-tense inflectional suffix found at the end of spurned and obliged.
What is -ed?
The primary rhetorical device Sojourner Truth uses when repeating the title question throughout her speech.
What is a rhetorical question?
A state of being bewildered, disoriented, or lacking clear order or understanding.
What is confusion?
The Latin B.E.S.T. prefix in confusion (con-) that means this.
What is "together" or "with"?
The Latin root in confusion (fundere / fus-) means this.
What is "to pour, melt, or blend"?
The Latin adjective suffix in equal meaning "pertaining to".
What is -al?
Truth's famous logical metaphor comparing reasoning capacity to containers holding different amounts of liquid.
What is the "pint vs. quart cup" metaphor?
The faculty of reasoning, understanding, and acquiring knowledge objectively.
What is intellect?
The Latin prefix in obliged (ob-) that means this.
What is "toward", "facing", or "to"?
The Latin root in intellect (legere / lect-) means this.
What is "to choose, read, or gather"?
The Latin noun suffix in confusion meaning "state, condition, or act of".
What is -ion?
The direct phrase in the text—"and don't know what to do"—that serves as a context clue for this target word.
What is confusion?
Bound by gratitude, duty, or moral requirement to someone for a favor or service.
What is obliged?
The Old English intensive prefix in besought (be-) that means this.
What is "thoroughly" or "completely"?
The Latin root in obliged (ligare) means this.
What is "to bind, tie, or fasten"?
The noun suffix added to equal to form equality, meaning "state or quality of being".
What is -ity?
The rhetorical appeal Truth relies on when stating that Jesus came from "God and a woman" and "never spurned woman from him".
What is Ethos (or Religious / Moral Appeal)?
Rejected, scorned, or cast aside with disdain or contempt.
What is spurned?
The prefix added to respect or prove that means "opposite of" or "away from."
What is dis-?
The Old English root in besought (sought) means this.
What is "to seek, request, or ask"?
The suffix added to intellect to transform it into the adjective intellectual.
What is -ual?
Sojourner Truth's central idea refuting the minister's claim that women are fragile and need to be helped into carriages.
What is women have equal physical, intellectual, and moral capability to men?