Vocabulary

Definition: defeated,intimidated "Folks said I had a hangdog look. I couldn't help it. My mind was full of so many lonesome things at once. I didn't smile much either." **Julep-** p. 112, noun Definition: sweet, minty drink, often used for medication "My cousin stared down at her old linen dress as if seeing it for the first time, torn and hanging like a rag above her dirty bare feet, then at Miss Abigail's mint-green dress cool as julep." **Parcel-** p. 117, noun Definition: group or assembly of people or things "I came to pick up the parcel Miss Layotte set high in the branches of the oak tree." **Mulatto - ** p. 144, noun Definition: the offspring of one white parent and one black parent; mixed background of Negro and Caucasian "'Look up here!' the auctioneer called out. 'A lively mulatto girl. Fifteen years old. A beauty." **Burlap-** p. 3, noun Definition: A plain woven, coarse fabric of jute "A burlap sack was nailed over the breeding cabin window, but it was softly lit inside." **Creole-** p. 15, noun Definition: A person usually born in the West Indies or Spanish America, but of European, usually Spanish ancestry. "She's a Creole. Brought up in Louisiana, all as fancy as you please." **Fretting - ** p. 83, verb Definition: to feel or express worry or annoyance, or discontent "By afternoon, when the sun warmed 'em and flies buzzed in their faces, those babies woke with an awful fretting." Definition: a rounded seed vessel or pod of a plant, as of flax or cotton "Pick easy, Eliza!" i warned her. "That boll's gonna dig into your skin and rip it raw."
 * Hangdog** - p.12, adjective
 * Boll-**p. 123, noun