AVIDLY

pg. 47 "[Iqbal] drank avidly and then poured the rest on his poor face."

BARBAROUS

pg. 72 "But [the man from Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan] said it was a crime, it was barbarous, to exploit children and make them work like slaves in carpet workshops or brick factories."

BRANDISH

pg. 5 "Of course, if I ever did manage to reach through the window or even to wriggle out, I would just find myself in the garden next door and Hussain Khan's wife would come to get me, brandishing her stick and crying, "You, little ragbag! You ungrateful little viper!""

CHAPATI

pg. 2 "...brought us a round loaf of chapati bread

CLANDESTINE

pg. 79 "But now there's a law in our country that makes these clandestine factories illegal

DECREPIT

pg. 67 "There are areas where the houses are very tall, so tall you can hardly see the tops of them, and areas where old decrepit houses are bunched together, but there was nobody about. It was too early

DELUDE

pg. 57 "I wanted it to be true, but I tried not to delude myself."

EDDY

pg. 9 "The sun was high and warm, and its long beams of light caught the eddying dust, in the workroom."

EXPLOIT

"But he said it was a crime, it was barbarous, to exploit children and make them work like slaves in carpet workshops or brick factories."

IMPLACABLE

pg. 9 "My hands, as they made knots, could give the hero's sword a slight advantage, moving the other sword away for a brief second, but the implacable evil sword returned."

LOATHE

pg. 66 "You could see that he loathed us and that he would have liked to see us dead."

TIMOROUS

pg. 40 "Only a couple of the dim-witted and timorous children had tried to claim that they had no part in Iqbal's rebellion."