Vocabulary

__**Vocabulary By Bill**__

Defecate: Purify, Refine (pg. 19) verb //Each set of six ate together, slept together and had to urinate and __defecate__ together.//

Coffle: A line of animals, prisoners or slaves chained and drive together (pg. 17) noun //Besa, Amari noticed, was in the front of his __coffle__ of captives.//

Feces: waste matter (pg. 43) noun //The men on the bottom were splattered with the blood of the men who had been beaten, as well as the vomit and urine and feces that the en chained above them had no choice but to eliminate where they lay.//

Assimilate: absorb, take in (pg. 107) verb //The next three months were hot, confusing, and miserable as Amari tried to assimilate into the culture of plantation life.//

Deftly: skillful, clever (pg. 141) adjective //She had given Amari a pleasant smile, however, and had thanked her as Amari deftly slipped a white linen napkin onto Mrs. Derby's lap.//

Mayapple: an American plant, edible egg-shaped fruit (pg. 219) noun //Her head hurt all the time, and even though the others seemed to have recuperated from the mayapple incident, she didn't want to tell them that she still felt dizzy and nauseous.//

Mire: Bog, marsh (pg. 251) //Amari signaled that they should ease out of the __mire__.//


 * A mayapple****:**

http://www.briartech.com/earlyspring/mayapple/img1.jpg


 * A coffle:**

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/collections/graphics/iron_slave_coffle.jpg