Holes Chapters 41-50 Vocabulary

impossible to explain or understand

• precarious

• tarnation

• inexplicable

• delirium

not safe, strong, or steady

• detainees

• precarious

• patent

• incarcerated

near or close to; lying next to each other

• adjacent

• jurisdiction

• sundial

• precarious

a device showing the time of day based upon the position of the sun

• adjacent

• patent

• jurisdiction

• sundial

a condition of mind in which thought and speech are confused because of a high fever or other illness

• tarnation

• precarious

• inexplicable

• delirium

a word often used as an interjection to express exasperation or frustration

• patent

• tarnation

• adjacent

• sundial

those who are being kept in prison

• incarcerated

• detainees

• jurisdiction

• sundial

to confine someone or put someone in prison

• patent

• precarious

• incarcerated

• adjacent

authority given to a judge to interpret, apply, and make decisions regarding the law

• jurisdiction

• incarcerated

• adjacent

• tarnation

document giving the inventor of something the right to be the only one to make or sell the invention

• patent

• delirium

• sundial

• detainees