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Examine each of the following words (which you previously defined, using a dictionary) in the context of the text, and explain the connotative meaning of the word and its effect on the passage. the sentences utilizing each word have been provided for you as well.boy: "a tall, good-looking man came to me, and inquired if i was tibeats boy, that youthful appellation being applied indiscriminately to slaves even though they may have passed the number of three score years and ten."free: "during the day, the angel of the lord who moveth invisibly over all the earth, gathering in his harvest of departing souls, had silently entered the cabin of the dying woman [eliza], and taken her from thence. she was free at last!"master: "master ford ordered me to make ready to accompany him to the bayou. there was but one saddle horse at the opening . . . i said i could walk, and bidding sally and john good-bye, left the opening, trotting along by the horses side."miraculous: "the goodness of god was manifest, he [master ford] declared, in my miraculous escape from the swamp. as daniel came forth unharmed from the den of lions, and as jonah had been preserved in the whales belly, even so had i been delivered from evil by the almighty."