Holes Chapters 1-5 Vocabulary

His face seems to have ______ or melted; his features had grown smaller.

• stifling

• shriveled

• befell

• barren

The campers are _____ to lie in the hammock.

• forbidden

• desolate

• gruff

• wearily

The bus wasn't air-conditioned and the air was _______.

• desolate

• barren

• stifling

• gruff

He had a great-great-grandfather who had stolen a pig from a one-legged Gypsy, and she put a curse on him and all of his ________.

• juveniles

• descendants

• buzzards

• canteens

In his mind, he could hear his father's _____ voice softly singing to him.

• melody

• wearily

• barren

• gruff

The _____ grew and passed from one instrument to another.

• befell

• melody

• canteen

• buzzard

To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, _______, and just a little bit of luck.

• gruffness

• wearily

• perseverance

• shriveled

All real good or evil that _____ him must be from his own wrongdoings.

• forbidden

• persevered

• befell

• shriveled

The site of the town is a _____, rocky mountain valley

• barren

• wasteland

• buzzard

• stifling

It was a _____ wasteland except for some grazing sheep.

• wearily

• wasteland

• stifling

• desolate