Holes Ch 1-7

someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past

• shade

• descendant

• recover

• outlaw

a raised area on the skin that contains clear liquid and that is caused by injury to the skin

• excavate

• envious

• blister

• defective

a person or animal left in a place without a way of leaving it

• descendant

• arrest

• stranded

• stifling

to fail to do something

• neglect

• curse

• convict

• tease

the quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult

• wasteland

• warden

• stationery

• perseverance

magical words that are said to cause trouble or bad luck for someone or the condition that results when such words are said.

• neglect

• arrest

• curse

• stranded

to prove that someone is guilty of a crime in a court of law

• perseverance

• tease

• stationery

• convict

to use the power of the law to take and keep someone, such as a criminal

• stranded

• neglect

• arrest

• stifling

to laugh at and criticize someone in a way that is either friendly and playful or cruel and unkind

• curse

• tease

• wasteland

• arrest

very hot and humid, making it difficult to breathe

• warden

• convict

• stifling

• curse