Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Poems Glossary

By Lina Christoph · Edited by Patrick Kennedy · Last reviewed December 17, 2017

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Written by Lina Christoph

toil

effort, hard work

tempestuous

rough, stormy

sullenly

grumpy

wax and wane

to increase and then decrease

extenuated

understated, trivialized

boisterous

loud and wild

aught

nothing

rivetted

focused on, obsessed with

squaw

Native American wife

soil

make something dirty

trodden

walking

starched

a way to strengthen and harden clothing

fiends

demons

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