Holes Ch. 1-7 Vocabulary

steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success

• Desolate

• Perseverance

made movements with any part of the body to express oneself instead of using words

• Expelling

• Gestured

to force out

• Expelling

• Expanse

quickly and skillfully

• Desolate

• Deftly

Limited quantities of resources

• Scarcity

• Excavated

deserted, without inhabitants, barren

• Forlorn

• Desolate

a wide-open space

• Stifling

• Expanse

to dig out and remove

• Excavated

• Perimeter

The distance around a figure

• Preposterous

• Peremeter

young person

• Juvenile

• Grimaced